Switching to a non-native package

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Zygmunt Krynicki
> <zygmunt.krynicki at canonical.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to work on enabling Debian in the CI loop and I was thinking
>> that it would be somewhat easier we switched to non-native packaging
>> in the upstream tree and similarly switched to quilt in the Debian
>> tree (we could have separate packaging trees for sid / stretch if that
>> would help). Since my view may be simplistic I would like to ask the
>> current most active Debian maintainers of snapd for opinion.
>>
>> Right now almost all of the CI in the tree is performed on the
>> packaging that is in the tree as well. The notable exception is 14.04
>> which has a separate packaging branch. This is unrealistic as the
>> Debian packaging tree is widely different and even if we built a
>> package from the in-tree debian directory and tested it on a real
>> Debian machine the result would not be representative of what a
>> subsequent upstream release would look like in Debian.
>>
>> I'd like to propose that we remove the debian directory from the
>> upstream repository (no special casing) and work on ensuring that
>> Ubuntu and subsequently Debian are tested equally well whenever we
>> make a pull request.
>>
>
> Splitting it out and using a similar repository structure to what you
> had previously for snap-confine would probably be a good move. That
> will also make things simpler for integrating in other distributions
> later (openSUSE, etc.).
>

Errm, Fedora, openSUSE, and other distributions that already use this
split naturally.



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