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[Faheem Mitha]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Uwe Brauer wrote:

>   > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
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>   > It's fairly easy to obtain a Debian package for Mercurial. In many
>   > cases, the Debian package from unstable will install on testing or
>   > stable. And if not, it's trivial to rebuild it. It's also quite easy
>   > to adapt the existing Debian packaging for new releases, in cases
>   > where it's not already been packaged.
>
>   > Also, Mercurial itself has the `make deb` command, but I have not used
>   > that.
>
> I just started to run it, it does
>
> running 861 tests using 4 parallel processes
> and it run and it runs the fan of my laptop starts because of the danger
> of overheating, I had to cancel it.
>
>
> What do I miss?

You can run it without running the tests. It's actually relatively
likely that at least one of the tests will fail, and then the build
will also fail. I just tried it, and 3 of the tests failed.

I know how to do the build without running the tests for normal Debian
packages, but I'm not sure how to do it in this case. I suggest asking
on the mailing lists, or probably better, on IRC.

Mercurial IRC is #mercurial, Evolve is #hg-evolve, both on Freenode. I
redcommend Hexchat if you don't already have a IRC client of choice.

Alternatively, you can use the latest Debian packaging with the 5.0
sources. It's not hard to build it.

Note also that Evolve has a Debian package that you can build. I
actually just finished writing instructions for building the package,
which you can see in the development version of the README, at
https://bitbucket.org/octobus/evolve-devel. Comments welcomed, of
course.

Regards, Faheem Mitha

> Uwe
>