Re: Newbie questions on packaging opencpn

[Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@gmail.com>]

On 04/09/18 20:13, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Alec,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 06:25:29PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>> I started using
>>>
>>>    opts="mode=git,pretty=0.0+git%cd.%h"
>>
>> Have you got a more complete example? Or just a pointer to the actual
>> project(s)?
> 
> The first package I was using mode=git was
> 
>    https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/libsmithwaterman
> 
> and I admit if I'm switching a package to this mode I'm always sneaking
> into this.

Thanks - I have tested and it works.

But, I stumble on the line endings, the first thing failing is the
patches. And we cannot possibly have patches with dos crlf.

<grumble> Im coming from fedora/rpm, and these things  are just trivial
when the packaging is out-of-tree. I sometimes find myself banging my
head to my table when stuff like this is so utterly complicated when
packaging is debian-style, in-tree.</grumble>

I guess you understand the situation. If the downloaded sources are
crlf, what on earth could I do without make dpkg-source upset, and
keeping repeated builds sane?

At this point I still havn't  found out any better option than what I
have pushed, using get-orig-source.


Cheers!
--alec