Improve debian packaging

clefebvre commented 6 years ago

Can you explain https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-desktop/pull/96/commits/651175e336292f51a1e3943a58edf6e6c9575ab4?

Other than that, everything looks good.

Do we really need to include a list of symbols in the git tree? That content will be obsolete with every new build.. and it looks like it could very well be generated automatically.

Fantu commented 6 years ago

if is not mainteined good probably is better avoid it, if you want remove 651175e commit. the content need to be updated only if some api will be added/modified/changed and can be useful to understand if the abi need to be dumped

Fantu commented 6 years ago

probably I'll rebase this in few days and I'll other improvements from debian @clefebvre about migration to meson can be good use debhelper from stretch-backports instead some manually addition? (ubuntu 18.04 already have debhelper updated with meson support) I'll try to split all changes in different commits with good descriptions

Fantu commented 6 years ago

@clefebvre rebased and add some other improvements and small fixes, if you don't want commit "Bump version to 3.7.0 for testing" remove it also tested build http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#stretch/cinnamon-desktop/3.7.0~1/buildlog other important improvements are needed but I suppose is not possible now, for example I not understand if you still want support s.o. older that stretch and bionic some other possible improvement not done for now:

meson support without manual addition for basic build support using meson require debhelper>=10.3 newer from backport should be also better; migrating dh compat from 9 to 11 make possible also other small improvements and for what I saw few days ago also helped to found a partial build error where on dh 9 of same packages before continued anyway
as spotted also by lintian: debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package (same of all other packages), tell me if will be possible switch to -dbgsym

Fantu commented 6 years ago

now that I had confirm of mint18 support dropped I added other improvements, I also tested build on stretch: http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#stretch/cinnamon-desktop/3.7.0~2

clefebvre commented 6 years ago

All merged except for version bump.

linuxmint / cinnamon-desktop

Improve debian packaging #96