Re: Start to help with a RFA package (or else)

[Vincent Carluer <vcarluer@gmail.com>]

Thank you for your help, I think I achieved to do my first packaging :D
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848384

I have corrected the minimum (FTBFS), do an update to 3.0 (Quilt)
format, build on sid and test the software on stretch which works.
I hope it will be ok.

I have a question: The upstream have not change since 15 years!
Instead of applying patch to make it works on debian, won't it be
better for me to fork the source and correct it directly (for gcc-6
compatibility for instance or this one
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401440)

Thanks again,

Vincent Carluer

2016-12-09 11:46 GMT+01:00 Gianfranco Costamagna
<costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>:
> 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.