Import from Debian?

Import from Debian?

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

did anybody work on some "guix import debian"?

If we'd had something like this, this could increase the speed for
adding new packages a lot. I found a Python module `python-debian` which
seams to allow analyzing .dsc files and control files quite easily. If
it is of interest, I could implement "guix-import-debian". Of course,
since I'm not a scheme programmer, this would be in Python. But it could
be used as a scratch for a Guile implementation.

Opinions?

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Hartmut Goebel

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Re: Import from Debian?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> did anybody work on some "guix import debian"?

We already have “guix import nix” but (1) the non-trivial parts cannot
be automatically translated (because they’re written in Bash in
Nixpkgs), and (2) meta-data, in particular licenses, needs to be
double-checked and adjusted.

I think it may be similar with a Debian importer, but I’d be interested
in hearing about experiments in that direction!

Ludo’.

Re: Import from Debian?

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 24.04.2016 um 16:27 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> We already have “guix import nix” but (1) the non-trivial parts cannot
> be automatically translated (because they’re written in Bash in
> Nixpkgs), and (2) meta-data, in particular licenses, needs to be
> double-checked and adjusted.

I would not expect this to be fully automatic. More to generate a
package-template containing version, URLs, description, checksums, etc.

Of course a lot of work would still have to be done manually.

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Hartmut Goebel

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