[00:03] <smoking-peanuts> I am trying to make a deb package (initially for myself) for the mesa project with a newer version of mesa than what I have seen on launchpad. I have looked up making a deb package but I wanted to know how should I discover what the package will depend on?
[00:05] <teward> smoking-peanuts: by reading through the dependencies for the given software
[00:05] <teward> i.e. by understanding what's needed to build from source
[00:05] <teward> and then add in the build depends.
[00:05] <teward> for runtime, understanding the dependencies necessary for it to run after built from source, same general thing.
[00:05] <teward> you can in theory use a preexisting package, if one exists, as a start point
[00:07] <smoking-peanuts> thanks.. that is what I was thinking but didn't know if I should be using a tool or something.. also thanks for giving me a starting point
[00:07] <teward> smoking-peanuts: unfortunately it's the same as if you were building from source and then running yourself
[00:07] <teward> at least from the creation of the deb package, anyways
[00:07] <teward> installation after a successfully built package, assuming all goes the way intended, is the Debian way
[00:11] <smoking-peanuts> teward so just to make sure I am understanding. normally I would run commands like .configure make make install and these commands would complain about what I needed to install and then I would build my list of what the unbuilt software  depended on?
[00:15] <teward> smoking-peanuts: or read upstream documentation.  but, if Mesa exists on LP somewhere, you may want to start with some packaging that already exists, and then read upstream documentation
[00:15] <teward> for whether there's new deps or not
[00:16] <teward> note i'm only quoting from what i've experienced - i am not, by far, a true expert on packaging, although I know my way around building-from-scratch
[00:18] <smoking-peanuts> what are you expressing makes complete sense and will be my next steps. thanks for dropping the knowledge. I also hope to be able to tell you of my success
[06:40] <dholbach> good morning