Re: Sparc status/my two cents
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 02:26 -0700 1998-07-22, Jonas Oberg wrote:
> >I am a debian developer. It's just that I'm not sure what to do about
> >these sparc packages, I mean, nothing is changed from the maintaners
> >package so it's an NMU, whilst at the same time it itsn't :-)
> >
> >When I compiled the package for sparc, I got these files;
> >
> >mount_2.7l-5.diff.gz
> >mount_2.7l-5.dsc
> >mount_2.7l-5.dsc.asc
> >mount_2.7l-5_sparc.deb
> >mount_2.7l.orig.tar.gz
> >
> >Is there a need for something more?
>
> Yes, you're missing the .changes file. The normal procedure for a
> arch-specific upload it this:
> 1. cd <package>-<version>
> 2. dpkg-buildpackage -B -m"Your Name <your@email>"
> 4. cd ..
> 4. dupload --to master ../<package>_<version>_<arch>.changes
>
> The -B tells dpkg-buildpackage not to build source, and not to build
> architecture independent packages.
>
One question presetns itself. Versions. Do we add a non-maintainer
version bump? What about if absolutely no change was made? (libungif, for
example, I recompiled as a no-brainer).
Jules
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