Re: request more advice: lintian warnings and python-tldp + ldp-docbook-stylesheets

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

Hi Martin, sorry for the lag


>>For python-tldp (source) which creates python3-tldp (binary):


>Rename the upstream or change the name of the source package in 
>debian/control to say 'tldp'?


just the changelog and control file (Source section)

the binary is good called python-tldp

>OK.  I will just leave the package building with that particular 
>lintian warning.


wonderful

>If I change debian/source/format to anything besides '3.0 (native)', 
>my package no longer builds from the working directory.
>
>Here's what works (right now):
>
>  https://github.com/martin-a-brown/python-tldp/
>  cd python-tldp
>  debuild -us -uc
>
>Can you help me replace the command 'debuild -us -uc' with another
>that I can use after setting debian/source/format to '3.0 (quilt)'?
>(Oh, and I'm happy to make any other changes necessary....)


print the error :)

but I guess you need to have the orig tarball in the parent directory.
dpkg-buildpackage will compare the sources, and bother you against adding patches
in case the source trees differs from the pristine tarball.

so, download the source tarball, call it tldp_version.orig.tar.whatever
(I always dpkg-buildpackage, wait for the failure, and then copy-paste the name
dpkg is expecting)

>And, I certainly understand the reasoning for the watch file and the 
>separate responsibilities of the version and release values.  I just 
>don't know how to handle that from a single source tree, it seems.


you have to tag releases, and use them as orig tarballs, simple as that

let me know if I can help more

Gianfranco