On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Etienne Millon
<etienne.millon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I will address these points and prepare a new version for inclusion in
> unstable.
Great.
>> * In the watchfile you add, you get the tar.bz2 file at source
>> forge. While that is clearly a good idea, it is not possible to use
>> the .tar.bz2 orig file for now without a source version bump, since
>> the source for that upstream version already exists in the archive
>> with the .orig file. If you really want to upload the .bz2 file, which
>> would probably be a good idea since that's the only thing upstream
>> provides, you may want to use a new fake upstream version such as
>> 1.510+bz2. That needs to use a dversionmangle magic in the watch file
>
> OK, I assume that the orig tarball had to be repackaged because at
> that time dpkg-source did not support bzip2 ?
Yes. Those were dark times...
> Shall I change the
> compression method to bz2 for the .debian.tar too ? (in order to bring
> some harmony).
This does not matter so much, especially since I'll have to rebuild
anyway. You may want to use the following in the
debian/source/options (or debian/source/local-options):
compression = "bzip2"
compression-level = 9
>> Unfortunately, having znses in AMD64 will most probably result in a
>> huge drop of my productivity ;-)...
>
> It needs testing, so your bug reports will be welcomed.
Don't worry, it'll get much too much testing considering the fre'e
time I currently have ;-)...
Cheers,
Vincent