[Gambas-user] Debian repository

[Sebastian Kulesz]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Ian Haywood <ihaywood at ...1979...> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Sebastian Kulesz <sebikul at ...626...>
> wrote:
> > Hi there!!
> >
> > Yesterday I released a new version of a personal project. Luckily, it
> > gained a lot of traction. Not so luckily, a lot of Debian users commented
> > that they either had problems with apt complaining about gambas versions,
> > or the interpreter complaining about the "Bytecode too recent." error.
> >
> > I provided a PPA for Ubuntu users which solves everything for them, but
> > Debian users are left in the dark. They have 2 options only, compile
> > gambas3 or use the Ubuntu PPA version corresponding to
> > it's Debian installation (NOT recommended at all). And those who don't
> know
> > how to do any, will complain about the official packages spitting out
> > errors because they are either wrongly packaged or too out of date. This
> > has been like this for months and contacting a maintainer is nearly
> > impossible. Besides, the mailing list for Gambas packagers is full of
> spam,
> > so it seems nobody is watching it.
> If you can get gambas to compile on a debian system (I have really
> struggled)
> please let me know as this is the block to getting an update out.
>
> the other option (which is what I do) is to compile your project on the
> debian
> version, this prevents the "bytecode too recent" problem and creates a
> version
> debian users can use.
>
> remember the debian philosophy is a bit different and software
> packages don't get updated
> as other distros.
>
> Ian
>
>
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Well, don't ask me how, but i managed to compile every component except
gb.media and gb.jit. gstreamer and llvm are available that those versions
are too old. I had an issue installing gb.image.imlib because of a virtual
package i had to look online (that prevented me from installing gb.sdl* and
gb.v4l) but that solved everything worked.

I might be able to build a repository by porting the daily builds ppa
control files, let debuild detect the dependencies automatically (really, i
lost track of them) and using reprepro [0] to build the structure.
Screenshot attached.

[0] http://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/
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