Make a ppa with all depencencies

[mehdisadeghi]

I suggest to have a ppa repository on launchpad along with dependencies, in this case unqlite, which lets ppa users to install the software and newer versions easily.

[aidin36]

Good suggestion!

The first problem for releasing a .deb package is: UnQlite don't have any released binary package yet. I don't know if it's a good idea to contain a third-party dependency in a our .deb package?

[mehdisadeghi]

Checkout launchpad documentations, I think you upload your code along with it's dependencies and launchpad takes care of building and making packages for you.

[mehdisadeghi]

Hey Aidin! I was reviewing issues I'm involved in and I saw this one. I decided to make this ppa.

I don't know if it's a good idea to contain a third-party dependency in a our .deb package

You are definitely right! tocc's deb package must contain only tocc and nothing else. To emphasize this even more, I would say tocc needs three different .dep packages, one for libtocc, one for toccfs and one for tocc-cli. Unqlite will have it is own dep package which lives inside the same ppa and will be installed as a dependency when one tries to install tocc.

I just finished adding unqlite to a ppa called tocc on launchpad, one can install unsqlite using that:

add-apt-repository ppa:mehdix/tocc
apt-get update
apt-get install unqlite-unofficial

Please let me know if you have any comments, I will add tocc in the next step.

[mehdisadeghi]

Just a little update on this issue. First of all, properly packaging debian source code proved to be a tough task, at least for me.

I played more with the above ppa and the corresponding debian packaging instructions. Now, instead of unqlite-unofficial, there are two packages inside the above repository: libunqlite-dev and libunqlite1. And libunqlite-dev depends on libunqlite1 of course:

root@09a004669cbc:/# apt-cache search unqlite
libunqlite-dev - header files and static library for libunqlite
libunqlite1 - Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine

I will try to build libtocc on top of this dependency. I would need to break tocc's source tree into three different source packages, in order to build them separately as one shared library and two binary packages.

[aidin36]

Hey Mehdi!

Wow! That's great! Thanks for all the work (:
I am looking forward for the future progress.