[Pkg-ganeti-devel] Some questions about packaging

[Guido Trotter]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:29:58PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote:

Ciao,

> First, using svn-buildpackage we need to have the orig tarball as a
> tar.gz and not just as a simple .tar. This is not nice to fix (we
> provide a different tarball than upstream), and from next upstream
> version we'll switch to .tar.gz; it's more consistent this way.
>

That's good! :) :) Well, for now changing the tarball is not too bad, I've done
worse things to "orig" tarballs! :) :)

> Second, I think there should be an ITP first, right? I'll open one. Do
> we agree that the name should be ganeti-instance-debian-etch?
>

LGTM

> Third, lintian/linda warn me that an arch-independent package installs
> something under /usr/lib. I don't know a nice workaround to this, except
> by extending ganeti's search patch to cover also /usr/share/ganeti/os.
>

That's probably the right way to go...

> Also, should we make some relationship between what os-api is provided
> by ganeti and what an OS provides? For example, ganeti recommends
> ganeti-os-api version 4 (a virtual package); ganeti-instance-debian-etch
> has a Provides: ganeti-os-api.
>

I don't think there can be versioned provides.. Can there?

Thanks!

Guido