Re: Subversion move
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 05.07.05 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> On the other hand, we have now a nicely working system to
>> automatically generate and change patches, which relies on the
>> existence of the complete source tree besides the debian
>> directory. I tried whether it is possible to have both - a
>> checked out working copy copied into the upstream source tree
>> which was not under version control, but it doesn't work well:
>> There is at least one file that we actually add in the diff.gz
>> (doc/generic/pstricks/README.pst-oscii), and therefore we cannot
>> simply set the svn:ignore property for the whole doc
>> subhierarchy; however when doing this for the other files in
>> there, svn-buildpackage fails.
>>
> I don't understand so much about subversion (read: nothing). Can't we
> patch that file into debian/ and copy it into the texmf tree during
> build?
Yupp. What I wrote there was kind of rubbish: First of all, we only add
it in 2.0.2, in 3.0 it's in the original, unchanged sources. Second, we
can always add files via debian/patches/patch-foo.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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