Re: Questions about simplyhtml[-freeplane] package

[Eric Lavarde <deb@zorglub.s.bawue.de>]

Hi,

On 24/11/12 11:42, Felix Natter wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am in the process of building the freeplane 1.2.20 package (in
> collaboration with Cédric Pineau) and since freeplane needs a different
> version of simplyhtml than freemind does, I am building a
> simplyhtml-freeplane package (based on the existing simplyhtml package).
Not sure this is the right approach... You're duplicating work possibly 
without need. You should rather check if Freemind really doesn't work 
with the new version of simplyhtml, and potentially ask 
upstream-FreeMind to upgrade (Christian Foltin knows me).

> What I did (source can be downloaded using link at the end of this mail):
>
> - adapted debian/changelog (new version, my email)
>
> - adapted debian/control (new package names, is the version number only
>    in debian/rules?)
>
> - adapted debian/rules (VERSION=0.16.05)
>
> Problems:
>
> - make -f debian/rules get-orig-source doesn't work.
>    - debian/watch
>    (http://sf.net/simplyhtml/SimplyHTML_src_(\d+[._]\d+[._]\d+)\.tar.gz)
>     seems to be wrong, the real download link is:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplyhtml/files/stable/SimplyHTML_src_0_16_05.tar.gz/download
The man page of uscan reads:
       # qa.debian.org runs a redirector which allows a simpler form of URL
       # for SourceForge based projects. The format below will 
automatically
       # be rewritten to use the redirector.
Now, I don't know why uscan shouldn't work... What does it exactly say 
with the original watch file?

> - ran dpkg-buildpackage:
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package simplyhtml-freeplane
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.16.05
> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Felix Natter<fnatter@gmx.net>
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
>   dpkg-source --before-build simplyhtml-freeplane
>   fakeroot debian/rules clean
> test -x debian/rules
> dh_testroot
> rmdir src
> dh_clean
> cd src&&  /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/bin/java -classpath /usr/share/ant/lib/ant.jar:/usr/share/ant/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/default-java/lib/tools.jar  -Dant.home=/usr/share/ant org.apache.tools.ant.Main -Dcompile.debug=true -Dcompile.optimize=true    -propertyfile /tmp/simplyhtml-freeplane/simplyhtml-freeplane/debian/ant.properties clean
> /bin/sh: 1: cd: can't cd to src
> make: [clean] Error 2 (ignored)
> rm -f debian/stamp-ant-build
> rm -f simplyhtml.1
> rm -f simplyhtml
> rm -fr bin
>   dpkg-source -b simplyhtml-freeplane
> dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../simplyhtml-freeplane_0.16.05.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b simplyhtml-freeplane gave error exit status 255
>
> =>  I copied SimplyHTML_src_0_16_05.tar.gz (built from git on the right
> tag) to simplyhtml-freeplane_0.16.05.orig.tar.gz
>
> =>  also note "/bin/sh: 1: cd: can't cd to src"!
>
> - one patch doesn't apply, I deleted it with "quilt delete
>    10_build_xml.patch" (will add it again later), I ran dpkg-buildpackage again:
It all sounds very wrong indeed. I guess, but it's only a guess, that 
something is wrong with your overall setup rather than with the package. 
I would suggest that you try first to build the original package 1.1.3 
using svn-buildpackage, and once you've managed this, upgrade to the 
next SimplyHTML version.
You'll need it anyway for the future, so see 
http://wiki.debian.org/Java/JavaSvn

Hope this helps, if not come back to me,
Eric