Re: gtkpod orphaned
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On 15/04/2011 10:17, Etienne Millon wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> As a gtkpod user for a few years, I'm interested to help too. I can
> help you in this task if you wish.
Thanks a lot. I guess I'll really need your help in the future ;-)
> The New Maintainer guide is a nice start, be sure not to forget the
> developer's reference, which is also a nice read (the policy is more a
> standards document than a packaging how-to). The wiki has also very
> nice "tutorials".
OK, that's right. I'll take a look over that, indeed.
> You can start by unpacking a source package as produced by "apt-get
> source". Try building it by hand (with debian/rules), with a helper
> (such as dpkg-buildpackage) and in a chroot (I prefer cowbuilder which
> is built on top of pbuilder).
Perfect.
> However, modern packaging involves version control systems. As you may
> have seen, gtkpod uses svn-buildpackage. Try to build the package from
> it, and maybe to commit a patch for a bug ? (hint : I've submitted a
> patch for #598778, I believe it's easy to fix :-) ).
OK :-)
> Cheers
Cheers.
mfv
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