Re: Bug#800406: RFS sayonara/0.8.2
Hi,
>license.txt
> * Removed license.txt
> As some other distributions strictly want this file, I wanted to ask
>if I may remove that file with a debian patch?
no you shouln't ever remove that file.
this is source of reject from ftpmasters.
You don't have to install it with make install,
so if you want to install it for other linux distros,
please override dh_auto_install and remove it
for sure in the source tarball it should be there
>Are there some further details I should check?
I think we are mostly good
>I have a question referring to the version numbering and bugfixes:
>At the moment I am used to fix bugs applying to all distributions in
>upstream.
>The naming scheme of the version number currently is:
>sayonara_{VERSION}+git{DATE}-{DEBIAN_REVISION}, e.g.
>sayonara_0.8.3+git20160508-1.
>Bugfixes won't affect the version itself, but the git{DATE} part. So the
>watch file will indicate that a new version is available.
well, what about calling them 0.8.3.1, 0.8.3.2 and so on?
if they are upstream bugfixes it is good to tag them from time to time, having a date
in the version scheme usually means "we are packaging upstream snapshots"
>If there are debian-specific changes I'll use quilt and the debian
>revision number will increase. Is that common praxis?
yes, debian specific, cherry-picks from upstream, patches needed because of new tools
not yet upstreamed, and so on are usually under debian/patches, and dropped/refactored/changed/refreshed
when a new upstream version is imported.
>So the next step will be to join the multimedia-team?
please join it now, and put VCS fields under your package.
(and ask me to create the repository if you want one)
I see some packages under pkg-multimedia umbrella have no VCS repository, so I guess
you can avoid that, because you seem to already be upstream
cheers,
Gianfranco
On 05/04/2016 07:50 PM, Ross Gammon wrote:
> Hi Lucio,
>
> On 05/04/2016 11:25 AM, Lucio Carreras wrote:
>> Hello Gianfranco, hello Ross,
>>
>> unfortunately, the last message went to my spam folder so I just saw it
>> today. Gianfranco, thank you for having a look at the package. I will
>> correct those errors. But you are right, there are some some packaging
>> problems anyway.
> I had wondered... You are welcome to ask here on the mentors list if any
> of the packaging problems are proving difficult to fix. Don't be
> embarrassed - we have all asked stupid questions here, and learnt from
> other peoples questions. Glad it was the Spam folder and not the too
> hard basket :-)
>
>>>> gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, libqt5sql5-sqlite < -- aren't them picked up by shibs:Depends?
>> Those libraries are loaded on runtime. The program will start without
>> them, but it won't work as intended. They are not available because the
>> build process does not depend on them.
> OK. Looked strange to me too once Gianfranco mentioned it (especially
> the sqlite library), but seems reasonable.
>
>>>> please just call dh_auto_configure and patch the build system to automatically take care of the flags.
>>>>
>>>> I think all the rules hacks can be dropped.
>> There was a reason for including these rules. But I'll try to get rid of
>> them.
>>
>> And thank you Ross for supporting the package. I guess, I'll need your
>> help from time to time.
> Sure. Once the package is almost ready for upload, I recommend joining
> the Debian Multimedia Team and maintaining the package there (in their
> git repository). I would be happy to co-maintain it with you. I will be
> hoping that you get so good at it that you won't need much help after a
> while :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ross
>
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