~sschwarzer/ftputil#29: 
Distribute ftputil as a Debian/Ubuntu package

ftputil should not only be distributed as a tar.gz file but also as a Debian/Ubuntu? package (if possible in the regular distribution, not just as an Debian-wise unofficial .deb package).

Rationale:

  • ftputil would become more widely known. This could result in more users, more feedback and possibly more contributions.
  • It would be easier for other Debian/Ubuntu? developers to add FTP support to their programs by adding ftputil as dependency.

Subtasks:

  • Add a subdirectory to ftputil's repository which contains the Debian-specific stuff.
  • Extend ftputil's makefile so that source and binary packages can easily be built along with the tar.gz distribution.
  • Get the Debian package included in the regular Debian distribution.

In principle, this applies also to other distributions. The reason for choosing Debian here is that I (Stefan) usually work with Ubuntu and could develop this package myself. If you would like to provide a package for another Unix/Linux? distribution, please send a mail to the mailing list at ftputil@codespeak.net . Note that you should subscribe to the mailing list at http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/ftputil before sending a mail to the list.

Stefan

Status
RESOLVED FIXED
Submitter
schwa (unverified)
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Submitted
15 years ago
Updated
15 years ago
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schwa (unverified) 13 years ago · edit

Thanks to the help from Debian package maintainer Chris Silva, an ftputil package is now ​included in Debian's Subversion repository. It hasn't shown up in Sid (Debian Unstable) yet.

Some information on getting Debian packages into Ubuntu is ​available. I plan to ask for a package sync after the ftputil package shows up in Debian Sid. As far as I understand, if I don't do this, ftputil will only get into the Ubuntu repository of the release after Ubuntu 10.10, i. e. in April 2011.

schwa (unverified) 13 years ago · edit

Since the Debian packaging code in the ftputil repository is no longer used, the Debian package can only come out after ftputil 2.5 has been released, so I move the milestone of this ticket to version 2.6.

schwa (unverified) 13 years ago · edit

ftputil is now in Debian ​wheezy and ​sid. However it's ftputil version 2.4.2 only.

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