LLVM PPA: Script source availability

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 21/02/2022 à 14:34, Whisperity a écrit :
> Dear PPA Team,
>
> I would like to ask where the scripts for the Debian packages
> maintained by the Foundation are available for contribution? I was not
> able to find them in the official LLVM mono-repository.

They are out of tree.

https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-llvm-team/llvm-toolchain/

and branches to match the versions.

> My main contribution idea would be setting up automatic calls to
> `update-alternatives` so installing, e.g. Clang, would register the
> necessary binaries into the alternatives system automatically, so it
> is easy for users to set `clang` to be a specific version -- something
> which is currently missing from the Debian packages, and setting up
> the paths for **all** the binaries is non-trivial automatically from a
> client's point of view.

I am sorry I will probably have to reject this contribution.

See

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/llvm-3.1/+bug/991493

and this thread:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/06/msg00380.html

Cheers

S