Re: [Tracker] Patch for debian package build system

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> Le lundi 07 aoÃt 2006 Ã 20:43 +0100, Jamie McCracken a Ãcrit :
> > 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.
>
> Finally I did something close to what Samuel suggested. I made 4
> packages:
> * meta-tracker (recommends meta-tracker-utils),
> * libmetatracker0  (depends on meta-tracker),
> * libmetatracker0-dev  (depends on libmetatracker0),
> * meta-tracker-utils  (depends on libmetatracker0).
>
> It is useful to have libmetatracker0 to reflect soname changes and to
> comply with Debian practices.

Thanks for your hard work in this area. I will look at getting some man 
pages done...


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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