Kristin Whetstone added a comment - 2016-09-27 19:26 Found that the description isn't cut off, it's in fact just completely different from the descriptions in RHEL and in SUSE because it's hardcoded in the `control` file. Unlike rpm, there's no convenient automatic reading from a description file. So now the description reads from the appropriate file. Now if there's ever a change in description, all the packages will have the same information. The downside to this is the newlines aren't nicely spaced since make doesn't preserve new line characters, the method in which we're loading the branding doesn't preserve new lines anyway, and the version of make we're using doesn't support the file import command (available in make 4.1 and higher).

Kristin Whetstone added a comment - 2016-10-05 19:33 I decided to just end up using a custom file since the whole cost of trying to spin custom functions for different operating systems in the branding file didn't make sense. Still up for packaging review.

Kristin Whetstone added a comment - 2016-10-12 19:35 The new printout: ubuntu@ip-172-31-24-219:~$ dpkg --info jenkins_oss_ubuntu.deb new debian package, version 2.0. size 206896358 bytes: control archive=2621 bytes. 66 bytes, 3 lines conffiles 1285 bytes, 24 lines control 199 bytes, 3 lines md5sums 3433 bytes, 95 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh 746 bytes, 36 lines * postrm #!/bin/sh 204 bytes, 7 lines * prerm #!/bin/sh Package: jenkins Version: 2.7.19.1 Architecture: all Maintainer: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <kk@kohsuke.org> Installed-Size: 208108 Depends: daemon, adduser, procps, psmisc, net-tools, default-jre-headless (>= 2:1.7) | java7-runtime-headless Conflicts: hudson Replaces: hudson Section: devel Priority: extra Homepage: http://jenkins.io/ Description: Jenkins monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Jenkins focuses on the following two jobs: - Building/testing software projects continuously, just like CruiseControl or DamageControl. In a nutshell, Jenkins provides an easy-to-use so-called continuous integration system, making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. The automated, continuous build increases the productivity. - Monitoring executions of externally-run jobs, such as cron jobs and procmail jobs, even those that are run on a remote machine. For example, with cron, all you receive is regular e-mails that capture the output, and it is up to you to look at them diligently and notice when it broke. Jenkins keeps those outputs and makes it easy for you to notice when something is wrong.

SCM/JIRA link daemon added a comment - 2016-10-12 19:50 Code changed in jenkins User: Sam Van Oort Path: deb/build/build.sh deb/build/debian/control http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/packaging/ce74c618284486290a792e9bed508dd929f28a61 Log: Merge pull request #71 from kwhetstone/deb_desc JENKINS-38437 Fix the debian package description Compare: https://github.com/jenkinsci/packaging/compare/0c9db1998568...ce74c6182844

Kristin Whetstone added a comment - 2016-10-12 20:00 Delivered. Thanks all for the reviews.