On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:49:46 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 07:32:26PM +0200, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > >>> - target called 'get-orig-source' in debian/rules > > It might be easier for everybody to have the same workflow for every > > package. The watch file just gets the released tarfile. In lots of > > packages this is not enough, as there has to be done some repacking. So I > > think this target is the only way to achieve such an unified workflow. > I agree that a common workflow is a good idea. It is also correct that > not always uscan can be used because a source tarball needs to be > rewritten. [..] Moreover it > is hard to maintain if you assume that uscan might change some options > or gets a new option which we would consider useful. uscan can use scripts (as the last parameter in the watch line) already. That's how we do repacking in the pkg-perl group. Cf. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libxml-feed-perl.git;a=tree for an example and http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/scripts.git;a=tree for the tools (repack.stub and repack.sh). > >>> - version of downloaded file is equal to version from changelog > >> Something like this is IMHO implemented in PET[1] > > Oh, that is interesting. I didn't know that. > That's why I insisted on posting to debian-qa. :-) Thanks for promoting PET :) > From your first mail it did not became clear to me that you are > reimplementing a full package building and testing workflow based > on the current SVN status. IMHO that's really something which is > not yet done. There was a project once ... ah, here it is: http://wiki.debian.org/svnbuildstat Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - PGP/GPG key ID: 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Donovan: Sunshine Superman
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