On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 01:20:41PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick message to say that I uploaded a new ruby-rspec package, > for the 3.2.x version, to land in experimental. It is at the moment > waiting in the NEW queue, because based on the earlier work of Jérémy > Bobbio, ruby-rspec now aggregates the sources of the various previous > ruby-rspec* source packages to resolve annoying cyclic build > dependencies. > > It uses a multitarball 3.0 (quilt) source format, therefore, the > workflow with git-buildpackage does not work as smoothly. I tried to > document it in debian/README.source. The edges are still rough, in > particular when it comes to integrate a new upstream version. > Regarding the build of the package, all the tarballs are stored in the > pristine-tar branch. Getting them manually with pristine-tar checkout > and building with dpkg-buildpackage or sbuild from the master branch > should just work. IMO multi-tarball source packages are a mess. Since you are already making up a version number anyway, I would rather fabricate a syntethic upstream tarball from the different projects and have a good old single-tarball one and be consistent will all (most?) of our other package. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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