Re: Help with updating nco package?

[Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu>]

Hi Debian QA group,

Damyan Ivanov wrote:
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> - -=| Charlie Zender, 11.11.2006 09:44 |=-
> > I am making a stab at incorporating downstream Debian modifications
> > into a source package that I maintain called nco.
> > My goal is to make the changes to the Debian packaging necessary to
> > bring the latest Debian version, nco_2.9.9-3, up to date with my
> > latest upstream version, nco-3.1.7.
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> nco is currently maintained by Debian QA Group. Are you willing to take
> over? If so, you should tell them.

Yes, I would like to take over nco maintainance, if it's OK with them.
I'm not a debian developer (yet) so I would need a mentor.

> > Everything seems to go swimmingly with the build itself until the
> > last fifty lines or so of output from dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot.
> > The text output and packages built by dpkg-buildpackage are at
> >
> > http://dust.ess.uci.edu/nco/src/nco_3.1.7-1.dpkg-buildpackage.txt
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> This gives "404 Not found" error.

Oops. The file is there now.

> dpkg-buildpackage creates a .build file that you can readily publish.

I built with dpkg-buildpackage but did see a .build file.
Must be a switch I'm not aware of.

Charlie
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