X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/vcsh.git/blobdiff_plain/525c11f877bcf1df0f259de357c61ee8ff1ae3f5..0726be2a782800e6a3b2234054e16e1addf8ca57:/PACKAGING.md?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/PACKAGING.md b/PACKAGING.md index b93b17c..ecbfa55 100644 --- a/PACKAGING.md +++ b/PACKAGING.md @@ -1,37 +1,44 @@ -# Archlinux +# Distributions with readily available packages + +## Archlinux AUR does not require any packaging information within this repository. -# Debian +## Debian Debian packages are provided by the author in separate branches, maintained in the upstream repository -## Ubuntu +### Ubuntu Ubuntu imports Debian's package automagically. -# Mac OS X +## Mac OS X / Homebrew Homebrew does not require any packaging information within this repository. A separate branch with a statically compiled manpage and release tags is -provided to ease packaging. The static manpage because Homebrew lacks ronn; -the tag so github generates tarballs Homebrew can be pointed at. - +provided to ease the work of Homebrew packagers: -# Additional notes +* The static manpage because Homebrew lacks ronn +* The tag so GitHub generates tarballs Homebrew can be pointed at -## Static manpage -In case you can not build the manpage because you are missing ronn please -contact the author. The "debian-squeeze" branch carries a quilt patchset with -a pre-compiled manpage and the "homebrew" one carries a static manpage. If you -need, or want, to build your packages against a static version in your own -branch this can be done. +# Supporting new distributions -## Other systems +## Your own work If you are maintaining a package for a different distribution, please get -in touch so your work can be included in another branch, thus allowing others -to adapt it to their needs or to improve upon it. +in touch so your work can be included in a packaging branch in the upstream +repository. +This allows others to adapt your work for their own distributions or +packaging needs. + +## Static manpage + +The "debian-squeeze" branch carries a quilt patchset with a pre-compiled +manpage and the "homebrew" one carries a static manpage. + +In case you can not build the manpage because you are missing ronn or you +prefer a precompiled manpage for another reason, please contact us; we will +gladly provide up-to-date packages with every release.