Create a debian package

[boyska]

This should actually not be part of this repository, but seems natural to file it here.

A debian package is not only a convenient way to install libreant, but also ensures us the possibility of doing distribution-specific hacks (like we had for gevent) without "dirtying" our upstream source code.

Related to #227

[boyska]

The following packages are missing in debian:

• python-peewee
• python-flask-bootstrap
• python-flask-authbone
• python-opensearch
• python-fsdb

I started working on some of them, hope nothing really difficult come out!

[ael-code]

On Dec 8, 2015 11:05, "BoySka" [email protected] wrote:

This should actually not be part of this repository, but seems natural to
file it here.

So where are we gonna put the distro specific stuff?

[boyska]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 02:08:25AM -0800, ael wrote:

On Dec 8, 2015 11:05, "BoySka" [email protected] wrote:

This should actually not be part of this repository, but seems natural to
file it here.

So where are we gonna put the distro specific stuff?

In another repository.
Debian suggests not to put the debian/ directory in the upstream
source, even if debian package maintainer and software developer is the
same person.
This makes sense and is more coherent with how I am doing lot of other
debian packages on which libreant depends.

boyska

[boyska]

btw, I managed to create all the needed packages, and libreant appears to work on a clean test system, just running apt-get install python-libreant. yay!

[boyska]

@ael-code for this to go further I'd really need a recent version to be released, even if just as alpha version. Can we call the current origin/dev 0.3alpha1 ? Or, can we set exact goals about when to release 0.3?

[boyska]

check this out! http://git.lattuga.net/boyska/deb-libreant

It has lot of other dependencies, and all of them are (should?) be in my account http://git.lattuga.net/boyska
YES, it is not github. I'm hosting those there because:

• while in libreant we were seeking maximum collaboration from 3rd parties, and thus github was a proper choice, the same motivation does not apply to debian packages
• of a sentiment we expressed in the last few meetings
• we can switch at any time. If you prefer everything to stay on github, or if we have any motivation not to stay on git.lattuga.net, I can be ok with it.
• 

When I can, I'll create a debian repsitory for it. Please note that I created everything for debian testing (stretch), not for debian stable (jessie). I think it should be easy to do all the same for debian stable, but I started with testing because some dependencies were already present. Could be backported, though.

[boyska]

I think that we can consider this closed by http://git.lattuga.net/boyska/deb-libreant