[Pkg-gridengine-devel] SGE on Debian Unstable

[Dave Love]

Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:07:51PM +0000, Dave Love wrote:
>> Sorry for the delay, partly due to trying to get a new SGE release out.
>> The packaging will need fixing for that.
>
> Sure, no worry.  From Debian's point of view, this is for the next
> release after the current one, so no hurry (but it would probably be
> nice to backport it for the upcoming release once that is out)

I'm doing SGE 8.1.3 and the packaging together, if that's what you mean
by "release".  The release branch is missing some patches that were in
the snapshot the packaging was originally aimed at.

>> I was assuming only the packaging would be maintained there, producing a
>> debian.tar.gz which would just work with the sge distribution tarball.
>> Why does it need the whole tree there?
>
> This is the standard work-flow when using git for packaging (as opposed
> to when using subversion).  

Is this stuff documented somewhere?

> Don't worry about the lintian errors, I or somebody else will take a
> look.

Actually, I've dealt with most of them now.  I'll push the results and
try to sort out a pre-release tarball to go with it in a while.  Is
there any chance to try building it on non-x86 arches?