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pentix / qjournalctl

A multi-platform, Qt-based frontend for systemd's journalctl command. Accepting local as well as remote (SSH) data sources.
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offer prebuild deb files in a ppa AND add it to debians repositories #67

Open freddii opened 3 years ago

freddii commented 3 years ago

It would be handy to have qjournalctl in debians repositories. Are there any plans to bring it to debian?

It would also be useful to have prebuild deb packages in a ppa at https://launchpad.net . So people can install it with getting updates and without having to compile it themself.

pentix commented 3 years ago

Hi @freddii

Thanks for bringing up your concern! As there are increasingly more issues coming from Ubuntu/Debian users regarding compilation and/or installation, this is definitely something that I am willing to approach :)

As I haven't used a Debian-based distro for a while, I do have a few questions regarding best-practices...

It would also be useful to have prebuild deb packages in a ppa at https://launchpad.net

Providing a PPA on Launchpad seems possible to me, as far as I remember it is kind of the "simple, unofficial way to bring packages to Ubuntu"

But what about Debian? Are Debian users willed to setup a PPA as well or this is mainly considered an Ubuntu-thing? Will the same PPA be usable to Debian users?

https://wiki.debian.org/CreatePackageFromPPA

It would be handy to have qjournalctl in debians repositories.

To have it in the official repositories would of course be nice, but I somehow doubt qjournalctl is "relevant enough" to have it there. It seems as if you need to convince Debian's package maintainer, so they package and add it.

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#new-packages

freddii commented 3 years ago

There is some help about "Request for Package" for debian at:

https://wiki.debian.org/RFP https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#l1

So you have to do a bug report at debian where you request qjournalctl for packaging. Then maybe someone at debian will pick that up and package it for debian.

you can do that by running in terminal:

reportbug -B debian

Number 1, ITP, is what to pick if you have packaged it and want to submit it. Number 5, RFP, is what to pick if you want someone else to package it.

RFP are listed at: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/requested_byage

Maybe you @pentix as the programmer can do that bug report.