Hi, Am Samstag, den 04.07.2009, 09:47 +1000 schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo: > First of all I don't keep the upstream sources or tarballs in > the VCS, only the debian directories and a directory for storing > the md5sum and sha256sum of the upstream tarballs. > > >From what I have in Bzr, I have a Makefile that does the following: > > - Retrieves the source code tarball from Cabal using the > debian/watch info. > > - Compare the md5sum/sha256sum of the Cabal tarball against what > is stored values in Bzr. > > - Extracts the sources. > > - Applys the debian directory. > > - Debiulds the package with lintian enabled. I like this approach. I’d modify it though, in that I’d not use a Makefile, but rather extend debcheckout (which is a pretty nice tool) to * detect that there is no debian/ subdir in the repository, but rather only the debian/ dir, recognized by the presence of a control, changelog and rules file. * checks the debian archive for a .orig.tar.gz for the latest version * it none is found (e.g. this upstream version has not yet been uploaded), uses the contents on ./watch to retrieve the tarball. * extracts the sources and adds the debian/ directory. Then building the package is a plain "debuild -I". This also has the advantage that people don’t need special tools to get packages from our repository to build, only the standard debcheckout. Also this way this feature will be available independent of the VCS used. To get a package that’s already in the archive, "debcheckout haskell-x11" will know what to do, thx to Vcs-* headers. For those who are new in our repo, the explicit repository path can be passed to debcheckout. In this scheme, no md5checking is done. Not sure if this is a serious problem. Also creating a new package is pretty simple: Get the sources, fill debian/ as usual (but don’t forget the watchfile), and then run $ fakeroot debian/rules clean $ cd debian/ $ darcs init $ darcs add * $ darcs put alioth:/darcs/pkg-haskell/haskell-x11 and that’s it! Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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