Re: Cufflinks package fails to build on Launchpad PPA
Hi All ,
On 01/05/2012 11:20 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:07:52AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
>
>> I had a short look into tophat and I wonder why cou need to override the
>> clean targets at all. This looks hackish and might be the cause of your
>> trouble. Usually source format 3.0 (quilt) cares for all you need and
>> there is no need to manually call dh_quilt_(un)patch at all. Did you
>> tried simply droping these statements?
>>
> I think that it was carried over using cufflinks as a template.
>
True .
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/cufflinks.git;a=commitdiff;h=7b0dc54968184db8823abf9176d0cbb4fd08dddc
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/tophat.git;a=commitdiff;h=45d35bf897f7e58698cbb5ea0f73767400ea2ab8
>
> In any case, I agree that these overrides are not necessary. What they
> probably try to do is to circumvent the difficulties introduced by the 3.0
> (quilt) format when working in Git repositories, which can be solved by either
> pushing and pulling the patches by hand, or following Raphaël's recommendations
> in his blog.
>
> http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/18/4-tips-to-maintain-a-3-0-quilt-debian-source-package-in-a-vcs/
>
Great link , I use first tip - ignoring .pc .
> I prefer to just do it by hand, and more recently I started to commit directly
> patches to the master branch and expose them in debian/patches for http://patch-tracker.debian.org/.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
Regards ,
Alex
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