Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

[Alexander Nofftz <lists@AlexNofftz.de>]

Hi!

Am Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 06:46:08PM -0400 schrieb Roger Ward:
> 
> Please don't think I am suggesting your build process should involve three
> source tarballs (i'm not the expert in Debian Ways To Do Things), but take a
> look at Apache and how it is built. Many different patches, tars, etc are
> combined from one huge .orig.tar.gz (NOT just true apache sourcecode, but ALL
> the sorcecode is inside this tarball... all modules, etc).

So I should rename the tarballs to .orig.tar.gz and move the debian/* files to
the .diff?

> I'd be glad to help you out, but keep in mind I may not know the answer :). Keep
> posting to -mentors and If I notice anything I'll offer any other ideas or
> places to look (please tell me if they're too mundane).

Sorry, I used my "private" address and not the address used for mailing list.

Here my original answer:

> Quoting Alexander Nofftz <mail@AlexNofftz.de>:
> 
> > Hi Roger!
> > 
> > Am Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 02:08:46PM -0400 schrieb Roger Ward:
> > > Why are you not uploading his source, with Debian patches in a .diff?
> > 
> > Upstream is providing this files:
> > 
> >   pysol-4.81.tar.bz2 (3301 KB)
> >     - containing a "compiled" and "linked" version of the PySol Python
> >       source, along with basic cardsets and some music tracks and sound
> >       files
> >       
> >   pysol-sound-server-3.00.tar.bz2 (149 KB)
> >     - source and compileable Sound Server
> >     
> >   pysol-music-4.40.tar.bz2 (1675 KB)
> >     - additional music songs
> > 
> >   pysol-cardsets-4.40.tar.bz2 (16857 KB)
> >     - collection of many free cardsets converted for use with PySol
> > 
> >   pysol-4.81-src.tar.bz2 (151 KB)
> >     - original PySol source without any data, runnable but much slower
> >       than the single file of the main package
> > 
> > The previous maintainer seperated the main package into pysol (game and
> > basic
> > data) and pysol-sounds (sounds and music), so I have to copy both the
> > additional music files (as the upstream author asked me to do) and the
> > source
> > into the directory of the main package tarball to provide a "proper" Debian
> > package with source.
> > The PySol cardsets package wasn't a problem to debianize and the sound
> > server
> > only needed some small tweaks.
> >  
> > > Is your package IMPOSSIBLE to deliver this way?
> > 
> > Well, I don't know what I should do, since the main package was glued out of
> > three source tarballs. :-(

Regards,
   Alex