Hi Paul, and thanks for your reply On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:08:49PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > > > 1. the patch is against the debian/control file: this means that I don't > > have to use quilt for that, right? Reading the DevRef I gathered that > > quilt is used only to track patches against upstream source, is that > > correct? > > Correct. > > > 2. Christian added me to the group on Alioth (thanks for that btw!): is > > it ok then if I directly apply the patch (after having verified that it > > works as expected, rebuilding the package with it) on the svn repo? Is > > that acceptable or is better for me to ask one of the maintainers? > > And in that case, do I have also to edit the changelog with something > > along the lines of "Applied patch to use dh_installdeb > > maintscript support, thanks Colin Watson. Closes: 659716"? > > All of that sounds good to me. Ok, I've done all of this, and committed on trunk. I'm not super-sure of my handling of the debian/changelog: dch -n was complaining about the not matching between package name and dir name, I used dch -n --check-dirname-level 0 Also, I used UNRELEASED and urgency=low. > > > 3. The package still have the old namescheme (ttf-georgewilliams): > > should I also change that to fonts-georgewilliams? In that case, do we > > need also a dummy-package? > > Yes, looks like this package needs to be transitioned. I think I'll do this once I've completed the change from SVN to Git (which I'm going to do now). > > 4. I'd like to help also with the SVN → Git migration of this (and the > > other remaining) package. To do this, I checked the wiki page with the > > tutorial [2] and I was wondering if the file to map SVN → Git committers > > is somewhere around where I can re-use it for the conversion. I checked > > in the pkg-fonts repo on monszumanska and wasn't able to find it. > > No idea, please add the info to our wiki if you find it: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/pkg-fonts/SVNTOGitMigration Yep, will do. :) Cheers, Francesca -- "Non mi uccise la morte, ma due guardie bigotte, mi cercarono l'anima a forza di botte" Fabrizio De André, Un blasfemo
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