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Re: unblock request for pgdesigner 1.2.17-2



On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 21:24:20 +0100, Pierre Chifflier wrote:

> On 01/16/2011 04:25 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:22:24 +0100, Pierre Chifflier wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> pgdesigner 1.2.17-2 has just been uploaded to sid, and closes an RC bug
> >> affecting squeeze.
> >> I've managed to backport only the fix from the svn repository and make a
> >> minimal patch
> >>
> > Care to explain the debian/rules and debian/control changes?
> > 
> 
> Sure.
> 
> Short version:
> It's the minimal code required to compile the code after the patch
> 
> Full version:
> pgdesigner is distributed with sources, bytecode for gambas and an
> executable file which is an archive of the bytecode with a loader.
> 
> While previously I did not have to compile anything (the distributed
> code was ok), since I have to include a 5-lines patch I have to rebuild
> the file. Since the build changes lots of binary files this creates a
> huge diff with all the binary files, and I tried to avoid that.
> 
Not if you remove the binary files in your clean rule.

> So the changes are doing two things:
> - adding the build-deps and calling the gambas compiler
> - the lines to save the binary files are a quick hack to save the
> distributed binaries (which are included in the .orig.tar.gz) and avoid
> a failure when running debuild twice (unable to generate diff for binary
> files).
> 
> This was done to generate a minimal diff which changes only source files
> and is easy to review.
> 
It also means I have no idea whether the bytecode we were shipping
before had anything to do with the source files.

Anyway, unblocked.

Cheers,
Julien

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