#467 debian support
Closed: Won't fix 3 years ago by msuchy. Opened 5 years ago by jkastner.

as pbuilder landed in fedora, it should be nice to have support in copr-backend for pbuilder to have builds also for ubuntu and debian.


If we did Debian/Ubuntu support, I'd love to see debbuild supported as a first-class citizen, so that native Debian packages can be built using RPM spec files.

PBuilder is definitely first class citizen in Debian world. It uses debootstrap - so it behaves similarly to Mock.

Metadata Update from @msuchy:
- Issue tagged with: RFE

5 years ago

If we did Debian/Ubuntu support, I'd love to see debbuild supported as a first-class citizen, so that native Debian packages can be built using RPM spec files.

debbuild looks interesting, but i would like to see pbuilder chroot builds instead of make debian packages linked to fedora libraries.

for spec to debian conversion would be better to use debmake https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debmake mentioned in https://wiki.debian.org/Repackage_srcrpm

taking closer look at debbuild - seems it would be useful only for quick rpm spec to debian folder conversion. dependencies probably fail unless there will be 'rosetta stone' for packages.

debbuild is supposed to be used in a Debian system

oh, somehow my eyes skipped 'on debian system'. so package names and dependencies are handled by

%if 0%{?debian}
BuildRequires: python3-dev
%endif
%if 0%{?rhel}
BuildRequires: python3-devel
%endif
...

do i understand it correctly?

I am going to close this. We did not have time for this in past years. And it will likely not change in the upcoming several years.
I will happily review any pull-request for this if you take the initiative.

Metadata Update from @msuchy:
- Issue close_status updated to: Won't fix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

3 years ago

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