Re: Build-Depends on source of a different package?
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:15:11PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:42:21PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:17:13PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> >> Is there a right way for using the source of a different
> >> debian-package?
>
> > For ocaml, i supply an ocaml-source package for other folk to use it.
>
> Hello,
> That's the easiest possibility, but it sucks bandwith-wise. -
> exim4_source-4.12-5 and exim4_source-4.12-8 can be identical (I
> probably have only changed/debian), nevertheless I'll have to upload
> it.
Yes, sure, in my case, i don't like ocaml-source, and i am not the one
using it.
> >> I've checked the archives, but I only found
> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2001/debian-mentors-200103/msg00253.html
> > > which is a little bit dated and without really positive outcome. The
> >> best suggestion was something similar to
> >> if [ ! -e $TMPDIR/foo.tar.gz ]; then
> >> pushd $TMPDIR
> >> apt-get source --tar-only foo
> >> popd
> >> fi
>
> >> If you're wondering: The package in question would be exim v4 with the
> >> exiscan patch applied. - It cannot simply be built from the exim4
> >> source-package because the patch is released more often than exim
> >> itself (current-version is already 4.12-24).
>
> > Well, why don't you simply do a package with a copy of the exim sources,
> > and add the patch in the .diff.gz. This way you upload the source just
> > once, and upload new .diff.gz each time there is a new version of the
> > patches?
>
> But I'd have to reupload all the packages not influenced by the
> exiscan-patch at all (-base, -daemon-light, -daemon-heavy) just for
> a new release of the exiscan-patch.
Mmm, you would not include the patch into the official exim4 package,
but have a copy of the exim4 package (exim4-exiscan), which will only
produce the -exiscan package, and replace/provide/divert/whatever the
corresponding package in the exim4 packages. Sure, you would have two
copies of the exim4 sources in the archive, and you would have to
coordinate the changes in both of them, but it is a good solution to the
above problems. I don't know of another way of doing this.
> Real reason: I don't want the exiscan-patch in the exim4 source
> package because I won't be using it and don't want to maintain it.
> It will likely have bugs not influencing exim at all and these bugs
> shouldn't influence exim's progress to testing.
See above ...
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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