Re: Fwd: Mathgl 1.11 issues for Debian
Hi All,
AFAIK, debian-changes is created by quilt, by setting the format to quilt 3.0. I did find this gets in the way of packaging.
You can avoid generation of this if you switch back from quilt 3.0 to quilt 1.0 -- it is unclear how quilt 3.0 is helping us here, that I have been unable to locate documentation on the workflows is supposed to support. I initially turned off 3.0 when modifying the orphaned package for this reason.
There is some documentation here:
http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0
That page suggests the motiviation is to separate patches from the working directory, I could not see any explanation why this is an improvement over quilt 1.0, which already does this. However, that page also tells you how to turn it off. ( remove debian/source/format (or put "1.0" in it) ).
Personally, from an ease of maintenance perspective (and keeping the repo trim), I support disabling this -- but Dimitrios is currently making most of the changes in mathgl -- so I will defer here. The current debian "fashion" appears to be turning this on, so it may be I am not understanding the purpose or mechanism well enough.
Thanks,
D. Haley
--- On Tue, 11/30/10, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> wrote:
> From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Mathgl 1.11 issues for Debian
> To: "Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos" <eftaxi12@otenet.gr>
> Cc: debian-science@lists.debian.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 10:10 AM
> Thanks for your modifications and
> your work.
>
> I just uploaded the new release!
>
> Sylvestre
>
> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 23:20 +0200, Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos
> wrote:
> > Hello Sylvestre,
> > I have uploaded debian version 1.11.0.1-1 of mathgl.
> Please have a look and
> > upload if it is OK
> >
> > I don't know how the debian-changes-1.11.0.1-1 is
> created. Probably through
> > the way the rules file is coded, but I cannot discern
> which lines do this job.
> > I will have a deeper look at it. This file is not
> needed any more since I have
> > created the relevant .patch files for the changes to
> the source.
> >
> > On Sunday 28 November 2010 17:30:11 you wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am watching for the upload.
> > > While I am watching it, could you explain me the
> point of the
> > > debian-changes-1.11-1 file ? which is huge.
> > > I don't understand the point of this file ?!
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > S
> > >
> > >
> > > Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 à 09:04 +0200,
> Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos a
> > >
> > > écrit :
> > > > pièce jointe message de courriel (forwarded
> message), "Alexey Balakin
> > > > <mathgl.abalakin@gmail.com>:
> Re: Web Form: Mathgl 1.11 issues for
> > > > Debian"
> > > >
> > > > > -------- Message transféré --------
> > > > > De: Alexey Balakin <mathgl.abalakin@gmail.com>
> > > > > Reply-to: mathgl.abalakin@gmail.com
> > > > > À: eftaxi12@otenet.gr
> > > > > Sujet: Re: Web Form: Mathgl 1.11 issues
> for Debian
> > > > > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:54:27 +0300
>
>
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