add Debian packaging

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The world is becoming quite the Ubuntu-oriented place, in the Linux side of
things...

Hopefully, things should work nicely for installing on Debian, but I'll
have to admit that my main goal is aimed at Ubuntu users. Appearing in the
Application menu, being selectable in the menu editor, that kind of stuff
would be nice.

But a basic package at first would be already a good improvement!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pphaneuf on 20 Apr 2008 at 9:54

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The Ubuntu-specific thing (although it might actually be GNOME-specific, I'm not
sure) I had in mind was the Applications -> Add/Remove Applications tool. It'd 
be
really neat to be able to go in there, type in "quadra" in the search box and 
see
Quadra appear. At the moment, there would also be a need to check the "show
unsupported applications" checkbox, of course...

To have this work involves the Quadra package actually getting in their 
repository
(is someone a MOTU? I could become one, I suppose), but I don't know what the 
package
needs to do in order to show up there (obviously, not every package shows up 
there!).

Even without that particular feature (which could be spun off in its own 
issue), it'd
be nice if Quadra appeared in the Applications -> Games menu once the package 
was
installed, even if you do it with "dpkg -i". This is looks like it's simply a 
matter
of the package having a /usr/share/applications/quadra.desktop file, or 
something
like that...

Original comment by pphaneuf on 25 Apr 2008 at 11:17

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I don't think you'd need to become a MOTU. I think you just need to point them 
in the
direction of an actively maintained package.

Original comment by Shrapnel.City@gmail.com on 26 Apr 2008 at 12:57

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We won't hold up the 1.2.0 release for that. The Debian (and others) packaging 
will
at first be applied as diffs part of the package itself, and we'll do our best 
to
integrate those upstream.

That'll also give package maintainers the chance to work out the kinks for 
themselves
without round-tripping with us or having defective packaging in the upstream 
release.

Original comment by pphaneuf on 14 Nov 2008 at 10:18

• Added labels: Component-Scripts, OpSys-Linux, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Milestone-Release1.2, Type-Defect

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Original comment by pphaneuf on 23 Aug 2014 at 11:41