Re: [Tracker] Patch for debian package build system

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> Le lundi 07 aoÃt 2006 Ã 11:54 -0500, Samuel Cormier-Iijima a Ãcrit :
> > On 8/7/06, Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr> wrote:
> > > Le lundi 07 aoÃt 2006 Ã 11:35 -0500, Samuel Cormier-Iijima a Ãcrit :
> > > > On 8/7/06, Laurent Aguerreche <laurent aguerreche free fr> wrote:
> > > > > I propose a patch that makes the debian package build system builds two
> > > > > debian packages:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1/ tracker: it contains what a typical user needs to play with tracker:
> > > > > trackerd, tracker-search, libmetatracker, etc.
> > > > > I made it not depend on mysql since a nested version will be provided.
> > > > >
> > > > > 2/ tracker-dev: it contains development files.
> > > > Do we really need a 'dev' package for development? Since Tracker has a
> > > > DBus interface that applications can connect to without having to link
> > > > to libmetatracker, I don't think its completely necessary (correct me
> > > > if I'm wrong, though :-)
> > > Perhaps another name could be found... It's just a way to not distribute
> > > to simple users files like tracker.h and tracker-client.h that are not
> > > useful for them. Distributions will do something like that.
> > >
> > > Something like libmetatracker-dev is better? But so it should be strange
> > > to not have a libmetatracker package...
> > Maybe 'tracker-tools' for tracker-search, tracker-query, etc.,
> > 'libmetatracker' for the libs so that packages like Nautilus can
> > depend just on that, and then 'libmetatracker-dev' for the headers?
>
> I also thought about that but if I do a tracker package that only
> contains trackerd and filters, trackerd won't be usable without
> tracker-tools or Nautilus. Since tracker is targeted to be desktop
> neutral, any user should be able to use tracker without any effort. Is
> tracker-tools installation an "effort"? To compare, beagle package is
> shipped with beagle-query (= tracker-search not tracker-query).
>
> tracker-files, tracker-meta-folder, tracker-query, tracker-search,
> tracker-stats and tracker-tag depend on libmetatracker, so tracker-tools
> will have to depend on libmetatracker.
>
> So, it begins to be complicated and we have:
> * tracker, depends: .
> * libmetatracker, depends: tracker.
> * libmetatracker-dev, depends: libmetatracker.
> * tracker-tools, depends: libmetatracker.
>
> Is it correct? Jamie, what do you think about that?

I suppose the deb should really be called meta-tracker with a 
corresponding dev package. I dont think we need to split it out further.

Thanks for working on this as Im not very knowledgeable about Debs


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