Debian/Ubuntu packaging
evilaliv3 opened this issue · comments
While working on GlobaLeaks and evaluating twistar usage (globaleaks/GlobaLeaks#1551) we are now evaluating to provide support on debian packaging of twistar in order too speed up the possibility to have it both in debian stretch and ubuntu xenial.
This ticket is to keep track of the activities related activities
https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2015/10/msg00267.html
@bmuller: are you already following this activities?
\cc @fpietrosanti
@evilaliv3 I'm not following. Packaging for various distros is entirely up to those distros - this repo (and issue tracker) is solely for the python library. Feel free to open individual tickets if there are issues relating to the library. Thanks!
@bmuller the packaging meta-data and configuration files are usually part of the code-base and kept on the library git repository, see https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Packaging and https://wiki.debian.org/Python/LibraryStyleGuide for further informations.
Example of outcome are like for Cyclone for Twisted https://github.com/fiorix/cyclone/tree/master/debian .
That facilitate a lot the maintenance of the software and the inclusion into linux distribution, for greater uses, we'd love to help with that if we'll migrate from Storm to Twistar for a new ORM, as GlobaLeaks need to be included into the debian repositories, so it's dependencies
@fpietrosanti I think that's uncommon to have folders in the root of a Python repo for every distro that needs one. I'd be happy to add a branch, though, named debian that has those files. The Twisted repo does something similar in that they don't include the debian config in the trunk, but rather in another top level folder.
the only benefit of having it in the same repo is the simplicity to sign it all at one when you release a package version, but this is up to you :)
@bmuller: messages in this thread should be of your interest https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2016/01/msg00013.html
I'm not sure twistar is in better shape, given that the last PyPI release is 2013.
It's still alive!
hahahah
by the way it would be great to fix together the few python3 errors so to be ready for ubuntu 16.04
i will try to support you as much that i can
So, it looks like twisted.enterprise hasn't yet been ported to python 3, and twisted.enterprise.adbapi is necessary for all of twistar to work.
it will! in twisted we trust!