Coding Week 7 Meeting

This week I implemented CMake packaging configuration for FOSSology. There were two meetings in this week and this report covers both of them.

Attendees

Where I can find packaging info for FOSSology?
- All the scripts and companion files are located inside debian folder.
- The most important files are control, which contains the dependency and description of each package, and rules file, which contains the make commands for creating the packages.
What are ${shlibs:Depends} and ${misc:Depends} ?
- They are dependencies required for creating Debian packages. CMake should be adding them by default so we can safely ignore them.
Will the new packages have the same structure as the old ones? (Michael)
- Yes for compatibility purposes Gaurav has suggested exactly follow the same structure as the old one.
Copyright build is slow because the same object files are being compiled three times, can you improve that? (Gaurav)
- I can try compiling the common object files beforehand and then adding the executables. But how to know the common object files?
- Gaurav showed me where in the Makefiles I can find the common object files.
There are problems with copying the symbolic link and packaging them. So I have to find some alternatives to resolve that.
With component installing, package description can no longer be set.
The fossology-common package contains file from fossology-db package. And the fossology-db package is empty.
- Gaurav said this was unexpected and should not happen. This seems to be a very old bug with packaging.