Packaging, contrib files and location

[dvzrv]

I would like to move the latest stable version of this nice plugin to Arch Linux' [community] repository. I see you already did some work on trying to ease the work for package maintainers and the like in #42. However, I have some questions and notes on it:

• it doesn't make sense to maintain your PKGBUILD within this repository. The AUR has git repositories per-package for that already and you're actually the maintainer of the wolf-shaper-git package. Detailed build/installation instructions should be enough.
• the XDG desktop file and icon should not be located in pkg/debian/, as those files apply to all distros. a contrib directory would probably be more reasonable.
• the Debian packaging should be dealt with downstream as well (same reasons as with Arch Linux packaging), or are you building this package and publishing it somewhere?
• as this git repository contains some submodules, it would be great, if you could release a source code version with the submodules already checked out (as reference, have a look at how this was achieved for supercollider's sc3-plugins).
• generally I'd also be happy, if you would consider signing your git tags and/or commits and/or release tarballs (in the case you implement something similiar as what is noted above regarding the tarballs including the submodules).

[trebmuh]

the XDG desktop file and icon should not be located in pkg/debian/, as those files apply to all distros. a contrib directory would probably be more reasonable.

agreed

the Debian packaging should be dealt with downstream as well (same reasons as with Arch Linux packaging), or are you building this package and publishing it somewhere?

I would think that this debian packaging is great to have here as long as it's not in the Debian repo since it eases installing Wolf-Shaper properly (think "package management tools") on Debian and derivated systems for now.

as this git repository contains some submodules, it would be great, if you could release a source code version with the submodules already checked out (as reference, have a look at how this was achieved for supercollider's sc3-plugins).

agreed

[pdesaulniers]

the XDG desktop file and icon...

I would just get rid of those, unless @trebmuh is against it :)

the Debian packaging should be dealt with downstream as well (same reasons as with Arch Linux packaging), or are you building this package and publishing it somewhere?

I'm using this package for the Ubuntu PPA. I don't know what would be the process to get the package into the main Debian repo, so I'm leaving it here for now.

I'll look into the other points.

[trebmuh]

the XDG desktop file and icon... I would just get rid of those, unless @trebmuh is against it :)

I'll still providing those for LZK but here is your repo, so do as you want.

[pdesaulniers]

@dvzrv Should be good now.

[dvzrv]

@pdesaulniers so far so great! is your pgp public key not on any keyserver though?

[dvzrv]

Apart from that: now in [community].

[pdesaulniers]

Thanks!

Yes, I forgot to send the key. Should be OK now, I think.

[pdesaulniers]

I suppose I can close this :)