[clangd-dev] Releasing/packaging clangd

[Sam McCall via clangd-dev]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 16:25 Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> wrote:

> Le 20/09/2018 à 23:33, Sam McCall a écrit :
> > +Sylvestre, who appears to maintain clang/llvm packages for debian.
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:08 PM Ilya Biryukov <iu.biryukov at gmail.com
> <mailto:iu.biryukov at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     BTW, Kadir noticed today that clangd is already packaged in
> clang-tools package and available in the new Ubuntu distributions, see:
> >     https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/amd64/clang-tools-7/filelist
> >
> >     (It's also there in clang-tools-5 and clang-tools-6)
> >
> > Oh, good catch! I was looking at the clang-tools package, not
> clang-tools-N.
> > (I don't really understand debian packaging, in case it wasn't obvious!)
> No worries! :)
>
> clang-tools is a meta package. It will point to the "recommended" version
> of clang
> and install the symlink.
>
>
> >
> >     It's named /usr/bin/clangd-7, though. Would be nice to have a
> /usr/bin/clangd symlink pointing to one of the "versioned" binaries
> >
> > I guess there's some packaging magic needed to get that symlink...
> > Seems to be here:
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-llvm-team/llvm-defaults/blob/5f4f2eb04f1340a8228bda0168534dd63a199be2/debian/rules#L288-290
> bravo for finding the exact place :)
>
>
> > Sylvestre: Do we have that right? If we want a clangd symlink for the
> next clang-tools release, should I add one line to "rules" and send you a
> GitLab merge requsest?
> Corret!
> I did it for you and uploaded it in Debian experimental already.
>
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-llvm-team/llvm-defaults/commit/a3e61c84f6ccb55d41b4dec5461cc437d9cb4ba9
>
> Should be also live on https://apt.llvm.org/ in the next few hours!
>
Thanks so much Sylvestre! I'll try it out!

All: I think we should aim to announce clangd as stable in LLVM8 relnotes,
do a blogpost etc. Seem reasonable?

We'd want to
- get similar packaging for the most prominent other distro/OSs
- get our docs and editor integrations polished
- make sure we at least sanity check when the branch is cut




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