Re: QPID packages in Debian (re-sent)

[Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>]

On 07/05/14 21:57, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> you're looking for
>
> https://github.com/cajus/qpid-cpp-debian
>
> The store stuff is also packaged, but it was a bit tricky to build...

I've just added to CC everybody who has uploaded any of these qpid
packages (email addresses from the debian/changelogs)

Here is what I've done

- requested creation of a mailing list
pkg-middleware-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

- cloned the python-qpid, qpid-cpp-debian and qpid-tools repos from
https://github.com/cajus

- downloaded the latest NMUs of these packages from sid and copied their
contents into git (using git-import-orig for the orig tarballs and then
copying the latest debian/* files onto master)

- updated each control file to refer to the mailing list as maintainer
and include the VCS locations so they will appear in the PTS pages

- included myself in Uploaders in the control file (Cajus, would you
like to be in there too and if so, do you want your debian.org address
or private address listed?)

- the pkg-middleware project now exists on alioth but the UNIX group is
broken (ticket raised with alioth admins)

When the UNIX group is fixed, I will copy all the repositories into
alioth /git/pkg-middleware/*.git

I may not have time to maintain these fully either but I'm happy to get
them into this central location in the hope that it will make it easier
for other people to step in or even just do NMUs

I'll also add a README.source to all of these inviting other
contributors to push changes directly into alioth git if they need to
NMU again

Cajus, can you just confirm:
- whether you want your email address in the Uploaders list
- should I copy any other repository from your github?  You mentioned
    https://github.com/cajus/qpid-cpp-store-debian
  but I see others there too.

Everybody else - has anybody been tracking their changes in local Git
repositories?  I notice a lot of effort from the Ubuntu folks on the
qpid-cpp package.  If there is any other Git repository out there now is
probably a good time to try and merge them before any new stuff is uploaded.

One other observation: qpid-cpp debian/changelog includes entries that
were uploaded to Ubuntu releases, e.g.

    qpid-cpp (0.16-7ubuntu5) trusty; urgency=low

It doesn't bother me but is there any problem having these records in
Debian versions of changelog?  It would seem better to combine them into
a single changelog entry by the person who uploads to Debian

Regards,

Daniel