Bug#925911: RFS: lopsub-1.0.2 [ITP]
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:57:51AM +0200, Andre Noll wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 23:58, Adam Borowski wrote
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:41:45AM +0100, Andre Noll wrote:
> > > * Package name : lopsub
> > > Version : 1.0.2
> > This library is certainly not something for Debian only, thus please append
> > "-1" to the version, and set debian/source/format to "3.0 (quilt)" (which,
> > despite the name, doesn't require actually using quilt).
>
> Sure, I just wasn't aware of this convention, and that "3.0 (quilt)"
> is the right choice for a package like lopsub. One question: With this
> change applied, dpkg-buildpackage wants the upstream tarball in the
> parent directory. I guess I'm supposed to run git archive here to
> create it as part of the before-build hook, but I couldn't figure
> out where this hook is defined.
There are many workflows for this, but my personal favourite is to skip any
such wrappers and rely on uscan (ie, debian/watch) only. As most project
will want a watch file anyway, this reduces the amount of work.
Alas, the vast majority of projects use a git host that does provide tarballs
for a tag, thus I have never used uscan with mode=git (as downloading a
tarball is still more likely to produce a reproducible result), and thus
can't give you ready copypasta to use.
> > I see a static library installed by the package. Those shouldn't generally
> > be used unless you're doing something special -- static linking makes
> > security and bugfix updates extremely tedious. Libraries should also be
> > split into separate binary packages, with lib${name}dev providing
> > development files while lib${name}${so} the runtime lib.
>
> Yes, I had this concern as well. I'll change the build system to
> create a shared library instead and split the binary package as you
> suggest. I'll follow up with another reply when it's ready.
Sounds good.
Meow!
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