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Subject: Re: CPack Packaging for Windows/Mac (and possibly Linux)
From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles () elpauer ! org>
Date: 2008-08-24 21:48:44
Message-ID: 20080824234844.9uxsh8gz4s4ksgc8 () www ! elpauer ! org
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Quoting Sune Vuorela <debian@pusling.com>:
> On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:25:03 Mike Arthur wrote:
>
>> In my experience using CPack however I'm pretty sure we could get the
>> package generators in such a state that they could be used downstream.
>
> My impression (without much look at it) is that the deb support might be
> producing technically valid debian packages, but not of a quality
> suitable for debian.
>
> .. and some guy within the last months came by debian developer maillist
> talking about how he implemented the .deb support - and a few mails
> later he said that he never read the debian packaging policies, but just
> reverse engineered .deb packages.
>
> That has at least convinced me to not spend any further time looking at
> the .deb support in cmake in the near future.
The main problem I see with .deb packages produced by CPack is they
are not usable by autobuilders: CPack only produces binary packages,
not source packages (.orig.tar.gz + .diff.gz + .dsc).
--
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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