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Re: DEP-4: The TDeb specification.



On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:13:03 +0900
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:

> Le Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 07:25:40AM +0000, Neil Williams a écrit :
> > 
> > Maintainers will be creating TDebs in Squeeze+1, using debian/rules,
> > using debhelper calls and uploading TDebs each time they would
> > currently upload any package that contains /usr/share/locale/LC_*/ etc.
> > Those TDebs are, effectively, +t0 - only updates by translators start
> > the +t1 sequence.
> > 
> > Maintainer uploads:
> > foo_1.2.3-4_amd64.deb
> > foo-tdeb_1.2.3-4_all.tdeb
> > foo-bar_1.2.3-4_amd64.deb
> > foo_1.2.3-4.diff.gz
> > foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz
> > foo_1.2.3-4.dsc
> > foo_1.2.3-4_amd64.changes
> 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> how do you coordinate your action with the project of using the source format
> '3.0 (quilt)' by default in Squeeze +1?

Why should 3.0 be any more difficult than 1.0 or anything that follows?
(Not that I have any particular desire to use 3.0 or quilt myself.) 3.0
has to deal with incorporating patches and changes from the BTS, so
+t1.diff.gz is no different. In Squeeze+1, the changes are restricted
to debian/po or po/ for native Debian packages so there is no need to
do anything with 3.0 until Squeeze+2.

What matters is that the maintainer gets the +t1.diff.gz and applies it
onto the source package prior to the next upload. It's no different to
how the same maintainer would handle a patch or new translations
file sent to the BTS. I'm quite sure various tools and scriptage will
be devised to help with different workflow patterns before Squeeze+2.

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Neil Williams
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