Re: Update of the Integrative Genomics Viewer to version 2.0 ?

[Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com>]

On 25 July 2011 16:12, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> Le Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:56:01PM -0700, Shaun Jackman a écrit :
>> Hi Charles,
>>
>> I've just uploaded IGV 2.0.6-1.
>>
>> What do I do with the pristine-tar and meta branches? These branches
>> are new to me.
>
> Hi Shaun,
>
> thanks a lot for bringing us IGV 2.0 !
>
> the pristine-tar is a convenience branch that stores information necessary to
> re-create a bit-by-bit identical upstream archive (‘.orig.tar.gz’), so that it
> avoids problems of hashsum mismatches when uploading Debian revisions (perhaps
> you have seen these rejection emails on our maintainer mailing list).  For some
> reasons, just doing ‘tar xfvz’ from the upstream branch (ignoring .git, of
> course) will not produce exactly the same file on different systems.  The main
> helper tool we use to register an ‘upstream’ tarball (in the case of IGV, that
> is what the get-orig-source script produces) is ‘git-import-orig’ from the
> git-buildpackage toolkit.

Hi Charles,

I used git-import-orig from git-buildpackage 0.5.26, but it didn't
update the pristine-tar branch by default. I'll read the man page
tomorrow and see if I can get it working.

Cheers,
Shaun