Re: [fis-gtm] ready for upload - needs sponsor
Hi Amul,
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:38:30PM -0400, Amul Shah wrote:
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> Apparently I was sitting on a commit for V6.0-002. I merged my changes with yours and bumped the version to V6.0-003 in debian/control
OK, for d/control. Please note my other changes in this file.
> and debian/get-orig-source. Please take a look.
This file was *intentionally* removed. You only need to provide such
script if there is any need to change the upstream source. Thanks to
our fruitful cooperation over the last year upstream has evolved in a
way that there is no need any more tochange the upstream source and thus
I deleted the file.
> I don't fully grasp how the watch file works, but that URL looks wrong. This is the URL that get-orig-source uses:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/files/GT.M-x86-Linux-src/${PKGVERSION}/fis-gtm-${PKGVERSION}.tar.gz
Please try to understand d/watch principle first: You should not
hardcode any version there because the sense of a d/watch file is to
*detect* new versions according to a regular expression. The string is
not necessarily identical with what you need to feed into wget to
download a file. This is a good resource to understand d/watch files:
https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/
There is also a specific paragraph about SourceForge.
What you did not clarified - what would be *urgently* needed - is the
role of this name change from "src" to "pro". In general: If you do
not understand what I'm writing in my e-mails, just ask back to make
sure our communication will properly match. I regard you as our
upstream expert and we need to make sure that these upstream changes
are properly understood and regarded in our packaging.
> get-orig-source is a script that Luis gave me. The watch file from my branch seemed to use that script.
That's a misunderstanding. At best the get-orig-source should use the
d/watch file. Please read the Wiki page above! The watch file is one
(important) default part of a Debian package - a get-orig-source script
is not. Please try to use `uscan --verbose --report` to understand the
role of the watch file.
> If it helps, the SourceForge CVS repo is up to date.
>
> I have not tried to do a build yet, because I don't remember how to do it. Apparently it's so drop dead easy that I didn't bother to leave myself any notes.
I think you did not took notes because there is quite some bit
documented in our team policy at
http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
Please reread. For a new upstream version you need to import the
pristine-tar (please seek for this keyword. I did not do this because
my answer what might really the right source to use (again, please
clarify the name change from *src.tar.gz to *pro.tar.gz).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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