Re: How to contribute ?

Hi,

Thanks for your answer. I'll take a look after my new year vacation.

Just a question about a package which block the new version of Wine integration.

vkd3d 1.2-6 in Experimental is not usable in Sid because it needs mesa-vulkan-driver << 21.

Michael did that because vkd3d tests fails during building. I don't know why because it fails with mesa 20 too.

I opened a bug report upstream and wine/vkd3d developer told me that there is this issue because of nobody has the same GPU (someone can have the error and someone else not)

The question is :

It is possible to don't make the test to package the app ?

--> it's possible to pass "--disable-tests" as argument for configure.

Thanks,

Le jeu. 30 déc. 2021 à 10:27, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> a écrit :

Hi Maxime,

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 07:47:47PM +0100, Maxime Lombard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm an user of Debian since 10 years ago and it's only now that i decide
> to help to packaging.
> I send this email about wine and wine-development package which are not
> updated since a very long time.
> The last wine stable version on Sid is the 5.0 and development version is
> 6.0+repack. Currently, the wine source code is frozen and the new stable
> version 7.0 will release next month.
> --> I sent email to Michael Gilbert (without answer from him) and open a
> bug report recently to update package.
> Same thing with vkd3d package 1.2 which is still in "experimental" since a
> long time too.
> I think it's not in Unstable because the test fail with mesa-vulkan-driver
> >= 21 (see changelog)
> --> I open a bug report upstream about this failure (see
> https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52248). Is it possible to build
> the package without to do test (set --disable-tests to configure) ?
> Nowadays, the last package of wine-development was uploaded ~6 months ago.
> More bugs report opened the last months have no answer from Maintainer
> (999753, 995580), same thing with vkd3d bug (994186, 993570)
> I packaged myself vkd3d 1.2-7 and wine-development 7.0~rc2 and all works
> correctly.
> I updated debian folder for wine to prepare the next Stable version.
> My question is, how to contribute and hope to have updated version of this
> package in Debian since I am a novice ?

https://www.debian.org/devel/join/ should help as a general introduction
on how to contribute.

Assuming you built your updated wine package by getting the existing
wine packages and updating them for the new upstream version (your mail
suggests that, but I'm not sure), you have a few options.

First, you can send a patch to the Debian BTS. The easiest way to
accomplish this is by way of the "debdiff" program in the "devscripts"
package; see its man page for details. Alternatively, you can publish
your build directory in a git repository somewhere, possibly on
salsa.debian.org, and let the wine developers (who gather on the
debian-wine@lists.debian.org mailinglist) know.

If you don't get any feedback from the wine maintainers, you should
probably contact the debian mentors mailinglist (link on the join page
above) to request more help.

Hope this helps,

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