[Pkg-netatalk-devel] Time for a build?

[Brian Campbell]

Hi, Jonas! Since I haven't heard from you, and need to get working on
Netatalk 3 packaging, I've merged the backports branch into master and
pushed that.

I've also pushed an "nmu" branch which updates the changelog for an
NMU build, so I could upload my current build to mentors.debian.net
(http://mentors.debian.net/package/netatalk). If you don't have the
time to review my changes and upload it, I can see if I can find
another sponsor for the package on debian-mentors.

I'm going to start working on packaging Netatalk 3.1.1, probably using
adiknoth's existing Netatalk 3 packaging work as a base. I'll name it
netatalk3 so that it can coexist in the repository with netatalk 2 for
Jessie, unless you have any objection.

-- Brian

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Brian Campbell
<brian.campbell at editshare.com> wrote:
> Hi, Jonas!
>
> I've been using packages built based on the latest git version
> (including the changes I pushed to the "backports" branch because I
> wasn't sure if those should be merged without associated Debian bugs)
> for a few weeks now, and have been fairly happy with them.
>
> As I'm not a DD, I can't upload a package to the archive. Do you think
> it's time to build and upload a Netatalk 2.2.5 package? Right now
> Jessie has no Netatalk due to the FTBFS bug.
>
> Also, Ralph Böhme has gotten me a patch for the feature I've been
> waiting for in Netatalk 3, so I'm probably going to start work on
> packaging Netatalk 3 soon. Any thoughts on packaging Netatalk 3? I'm
> thinking that for Jessie we'd want to have a new package named
> netatalk3, so there could still be Netatalk 2.2.5 in the archive as
> netatalk as the configuration format is not backwards compatible nor
> is it possible to automatically migrate (there are still a few obscure
> features not supported by the new configuration format, as well as
> obsolete features like the actual AppleTalk protocol). But I'm less
> familiar with Debian packaging so you may have other preferences.
>
> Would https://github.com/adiknoth/netatalk-debian/tree/master/debian
> be a good place to start, or would it be better to just redo the
> Netatalk 3 packaging from scratch?
>
> -- Brian