LLVM PPA: Script source availability

Maxime Chambonnet maxzor at maxzor.eu
Mon Feb 21 13:42:14 GMT 2022


Hello,

On 2/21/22 14:34, Whisperity wrote:
> 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.
> 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 interested in this too! I was considering contributing
llvm-is-llvmN packages, in the vein of python-is-python3.
You can find llvm team repositories in salsa [1].
Inspiration can probably be taken from the llvm-defaults repo.

BR, Maxime

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-llvm-team



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