Comments on: First Shot at Packaging

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:26:38 +0000

python-zopeinterface a missing dependency on my box.

By: Ã‰tienne Bersac

Ã‰tienne Bersac — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:02:21 +0000

CDBS is good enough. You should make better use of it instead of diving into lower level deb-helper scripts.

Ã‰tienne.

By: Daniel Holbach’s blog » Blog Archive » Cool stuff in MOTU land

Daniel Holbach’s blog » Blog Archive » Cool stuff in MOTU land — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:39:05 +0000

[...] news everybody. First of all, our bearded friend, Jono Bacon is working towards MOTU-ship. Also, we’ll have a MOTU Q&A session, on Friday, 19th Oct on 12:00 UTC in [...]

By: Jay R. Wren

Jay R. Wren — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:53:04 +0000

You should REALLY use PPA. Eat your own dog food!

By: chris

chris — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:40:14 +0000

missing dependency on my system: python-setuptools

By: Derek Buranen

Derek Buranen — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:49:41 +0000

I installed it on my gutsy here. It works, but the app is still a bit crash happy.

Importing videos doesn't work with drag/drop, only via "add" and it crashed when I added an mp3 to the timeline in advanced view.

Definitely showing progress (not the G. W. Bush progress, but real, verifiable and scientifically demonstrated progress)

Thanks for packaging Mr. Jono.

By: tenshu

tenshu — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:27:32 +0000

congrat’

Packaging look simple but it is hard if you look closer You need to be VERY careful with many details

Anoying things : _ obtaining a good communication link with the upstream author(s) _ writing a manpage (yeak) _ getting rewied by the REVU team _ shipping your package to debian (debian team is more careful on details than ubuntu MOTU

My personal advise is to work directly for the debian packaging project Go get a good mentor (i had a bad experience with one of them) Then help ubuntu team to matain your package synced from debian

My 2cts good luck with packaging Its hard but it’s priceless to see that people are installing it and use it on their system : http://popcon.ubuntu.com/

By: Mark Ginter

Mark Ginter — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:11:07 +0000

I just tried installing your pitivi package. I’m also running gutsy – but when I try to start pitivi it says, Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/pitivi”, line 113, in runpitivi() File “/usr/bin/pitivi”, line 102, in runpitivi import pitivi.pitivi as pitivi File “/usr/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/pitivi.py”, line 29, in from ui import mainwindow File “/usr/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/ui/mainwindow.py”, line 49, in from pluginmanagerdialog import PluginManagerDialog File “/usr/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/ui/pluginmanagerdialog.py”, line 30, in import pitivi.pluginmanager as pluginmanager File “/usr/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/pluginmanager.py”, line 32, in import pkgresources ImportError: No module named pkgresources

I had 0.10.3 installed previously – so I don’t know if this is a result of trying to upgrade to your package or not.

Not a critique — most indebted to your packaging efforts — just wanted to offer some feedback

By: Rick Harding

Rick Harding — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:52:05 +0000

I've recently started down the same path as yourself. I have to say the #ubuntu-motu people are amazingly great with helping out guys like us.

As to the openSuse build service, it sounds something like the launchpad PPA service. I know Jorge and another friend have setup packages with the PPA service and now have their own hosted repositories. Very cool stuff.

By: Josef Assad

Josef Assad — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:20:24 +0000

I dunno if this is on your priority list, but you might want to look at building your packages on the openSUSE Build Service. Seeing how there are currently xubuntu and Etch repos listed as valid repo targets, shouldn't take any extra work to get your package building for Ubuntu 7.10 too there.

Good way to build for archs you don't have, too.