Re: Start to help with a RFA package (or else)
Hi,
>I may need some help to go further.
>For now I've managed to:
>- Build xmacro in Jessy
s/Jessy/Jessie :)
>- Reproduce the gcc-6 FTBFS in stretch
wonderful
>- Applied the patch with quilt and made it compile on stretch (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831195)
you need to make it compile on sid, not stretch
>- Learn some packaging debian-fu>
>I didn't test the software yet, neither package it properly.
>Before doing that I want to be sure the current maintainer is OK for me to adopt the package but he does not answer (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin>/bugreport.cgi?bug=832150)
>
you can adopt it right now, but:
install and use pbuilder/sbuild to check the package against sid.
useful tools:
$ pull-debian-source
$ add-patch
$ dpkg-buildpackage ([-S, -sa -d]) to create
something that pbuilder/sbuild can use to build the package
$ dput mentors foo_source.changes
^^ this uploads the package on mentors, and then you can open
an RFS bug to have it sponsored.
(different people have different tools)
e.g. to create a sid chroot
pbuilder-dist sid create
pbuilder-dist sid update
pbuilder-dist sid build file_version.dsc
^^ this is one of the easiest ways I got to create a sid amd64 chroot
cheers,
G.
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