Packaging alien, debhelper and po-debconf

[Sérgio Basto]

On Ter, 2013-05-07 at 14:07 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: 
> On Wednesday 01 May 2013 22:21:20 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 03:00:34AM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591190
> > I'm prepared to take debhelper.  But:
> > (1) It looks like the latest package is over 1 year old.  I think a
> >      newer package should be presented (in this bug or in a newly opened
> >      one).
> > (2) Can debhelper be used to make .deb's on a Fedora host?  If it
> >       works, that would currently be very interesting to me.
> 
> I'll start with (2):
>  * I can build .deb's on Fedora using pbuilder/pdebuild.
> 
>  * Here is the tree of RR for making it work:
>        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=591388
> 
>  * Credit goes to Jeroen van Meeuwen. I just joined to help move it forward
>     [ with very little success so far, mind you :-( ]
> 
>  * And yes, I think it makes Fedora a better development platform if you can
>     use it to build both rpm's and deb's (on Debian, you can do both).
> 
> Now to (1)... Ouch:
>  * The stalling of po-debconf is my fault, but see today's update to rhbz#591389
>    (I'm fixing my ways...)
> 
>  * If we resolve it quickly, the next is debhelper (rhbz#591190). IMO the main
>    blocker there is finding someone committed to review (I'm willing to maintain it).
>    There's another problem in the chain (dpkg too old), but hopefully it will
>    be OK soon (maintainer updated today the BR and said he would fix it RSN)
> 
>  * I uploaded a temporary pbuilder SRPM:
>       http://oron.fedorapeople.org/deb-package/pbuilder-0.213-1.fc18.src.rpm
>    - It's up-to-date (Debian/wheezy)
>    - But I didn't have time to clean it up for review. Hope to do this in the next
>      few days and update the RR.
> 
> So maybe we finally have a chance to move this along before the
> dedicated bug zappers would zap it (no criticism -- they work
> hard to clean the mess we leave behind us).
> 
> Unrelated note:
>  * I've been using schroot(1) a lot in the last years on both Debian/Fedora to
>     maintain multiple clean build environments of different OS.
>  * However, one of the most useful features -- snapshots via LVM -- is not
>     usable in Fedora due to rhbz#600636
>  * That bug-report is stalled since 2010, and exactly a year passed since
>     I sent a tested patch...
> 
> OK, back to work now.

OK so lets cleanup all this reviews, do you finish the reviews
requests ? I can only do it on week ends . 

we have Richard W.M. Jones and Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich also interested in
this packages.

As alien is ready just need be updated to 0.88 , the most priority are
debhelper and po-debconf , but we can do the others 

Best regards. 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.