Re: [AD] a5 ubuntu ppa

Probably not. As I understand it, it can interfere with down stream or we'd need to leave it out of releases.

"Many upstream code sources tend to include a rough /debian directory among source files to ease bleeding-edge package compilation and installation on debian (and derived) systems; while this is a good effort, it would be better to leave it out of the final tarball as it can interfere with debian's own packaging effort. Keeping it only in your VCS repository is usually a much saner default."

On 29 Nov 2012 06:56, "Jon Rafkind" <workmin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think we should publish an Ubuntu PPA for both 5.0 and 5.1 packages. I just learned that 5.0.8 is packaged for ubuntu raring (12.10) but not for any other distro and 5.1 is not packaged. It is very easy to set up PPA's. gusnan from #allegro-dev already has a debian/ directory going. I make ppa packages for another system: https://launchpad.net/~plt

I think we should include gusnan's debian directory in our git tree. http://packages.ubunut.com/search?keywords=liballegro5

Then its a simple matter of uploading a tarball to launchpad, for which I just created a group: https://launchpad.net/~allegro

I can set this up. The only real question is whether its appropriate to include the debian tree directly in our git tree.

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