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Re: packaging question regarding the watch file



On Sunday, December 11, 2016 12:57:40 PM MST Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:04:30PM -0700, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote:
> > I have a question regarding packaging using git and the watch file in the
> > Debian directory. There is an open bug 794438 for the KDE Partition
> > Manager. The current package is broken in Sid. In the thread it was
> > mentioned that the KDE Neon has a working package. When I pulled the git
> > repo it was only the Debian directory. So what I was following [1]the
> > git-buildpackage manual  I cloned the partition manager git repo added
> > the debian directory and was able to build a working package. However
> > after looking closely I begun to wonder if I understood what I was doing.
> > So the upstream repro appears to be on version 2.9.90 and preparing to go
> > to version 3.0. However the version that I built was 1.0.3. I did not
> > understand how this could have happened. Then looking in the Debian
> > directory I saw that the watch file is referencing a Source Forge repo
> > with the v1.0.3 tar ball. So my question is when I built the package did
> > I need to pull code from the upstream repo? Did the build tools just pull
> > the tar file down from sf and used it instead? Any help understanding
> > will be appreciated[2]
> I didn't fully understand what are you asking but if you are asking why
> did your package use the 1.0.3 version it's because the package version in
> debian/changelog is 1.0.3.

Let me try to clarify. Did my package use the code from upstream or the code 
from the watch file to build.

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