Re: Uploading Praat 3.5.35-1
Hi Rafael,
I take the freedom to answer on Debian Med list because your practice to
handle experimental branch sounds interesting. BTW: In general I would
prefer if you would contact me about praat always via list. It works as
reliable as via private mail but other people in the team become
informed about an interesting package and interesting technical stuff -
so there is no point in hiding this.
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 07:39:48AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I just committed the changes to the praat package Git repository
> regarding the new upstream version 3.5.35. I used the experimental
> branch instead of master for that. Version 3.5.35-1 of the package
> would then be uploaded to the experimental distribution. We adopted
> this practice in the Debian Octave Group, because this keeps the
> master branch clean for changes in unstable, which is the preferred
> route for updates intended to be migrated into testing and that fix
> RC bugs.
Uploading to experimental in freeze time is handled in Debian Med team
the same way but we did not used a different branch. I'd consider this
interesting however, you might blame my Git beginner status responsible
for not understanding how you upgrade from experimental to unstable once
stable is released. Will you merge the experimental branch with master
then or will you simply move on in master branch (targeting at unstable)
by ignoring the changelog entries done meanwhile in experimental. I
would not like the latter because this would be a loss of information
for non-Git users just looking at the package changelog.
> I do not know how familiar you are with the git-buildpackage
> framework, but here are the commands that should work for building
> the new version in the experimental branch:
>
> gbp-pull
> git pull --all
> git checkout experimental
> git-dch --ignore-branch
> git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new
I rather used
git-buildpackage --git-debian-branch=experimental
and I guess this is what you intended to write, right?
> You should then change the distribution in debian/changelog from
> "UNRELEASED" to "experimental" before building the final package.
Done and uploaded.
As far as I understood you have some contact to upstream. I wonder
whether they might like to include the two quilt patches.
> Tell me if you prefer to upload unstable and use the master branch
> instead of the experimental route.
No, if I understood release team announcements correctly this would be a
bad idea.
> P.S.: I am not subscribed to the debian-med mailing lists. Do you
> prefer that I send messages like this one to the ML instead of
> sending to you personally?
Ahhh, you notice I have the habit of not reading mails until end but
rather start answering. :-) I guess I did answer this question in the
beginning. Please make sure to remind me (or others) about the fact
that you are not subscribed to make sure we will not forget to CC you.
Thanks for preparing the praat package
Andreas.
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