Re: Fwd: Bug#764549: ITP: siril -- Astronomical image processing tool

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Vincent Hourdin <debian-siril@free-astro.vinvin.tf> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:58:16AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> Is there a 0.9.0b version of siril in SVN or as tarball?
>
> There is no tarball yet, nor SVN tag or branch, it's just the trunk.
> I'll create the README.source then.

In this case, I would also name the version as something like
0.9.0~beta~svn621 or 0.9.0~alpha+svn621 (depending on whether you want
to have the release as something before the beta release, or something
before after the alpha release -- a matter of taste). This brings it
into the correct order:

0.9.0~alpha < 0.9.0~beta~svn621  < 0.9.0~beta < 0.9.0 < 1.0.0
              0.9.0~alpha+svn621 

(as a rule of thumb: use "+" if you want to have something just after a
given version, or "~" for something just before a given version)

If no SVN tag is there, please use the SVN release as an indicator so
that it is transparent which version you used.

And I would use "alpha" and "beta" if upstream does, since it makes it
easier to compare between upstream and Debian.

>> > I'm currently unable to build it because I have made a modification in
>> > the debian branch to remove the LICENSE file from make install, and
>> > debuild detects it and stops.
>> 
>> If the original tar ball contains a debian subdir, you need to repackage
>
> The debian subdir was removed from upstream, it's only the debian git
> branch that contains it.

Then I am nor sure whether I understood you correct: 

* the *.orig.tar.gz file contains only the files from upstream. A
  debian/ subdir should not be there.

* everything that is in debian/ goes into the *.debian.tar.xz tar
  file. You can edit this freely, and debuild should not complain.

>> I have no idea yet how to put a svg icon there -- my is an xpm. Please
>> ask on the debian-mentors list for better info :-)
>
> Ok, we'll do that. Converting the svg to xpm will be alright, I don't
> think we have an actually vectorized image in the svg.

Good, however: this either should to be done upstream, or during the
build process.

> Sergio, I'll read about quilt, that sounds complicated. 

I can really recommend quilt. It makes everything much easier.

Best regards

Ole