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Bug#787953: ITP: insubstantial -- Swing libraries (flamingo/substance/trident)



On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 07:47:08PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Am 17.01.2016 um 11:00 schrieb Felix Natter:
> > - Build-Depends-Indep vs Build-Depends, espescially gradle-debian-helper!
> 
> It's fine to use Build-Depends exclusively here because we only build
> arch:all packages. That means it makes no difference if you split the
> build-dependencies between Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep. In
> this case it is just a little bit more readable and simpler to use
> Build-Depends.

+1
 
> > - gradle-debian-helper: less verbose build?
> 
> Verbose builds are preferable because automatic tools will be more able
> to detect flaws at compile time.

+1 

> > - test in pbuilder chroot (I cannot currently do this until Thursday
> >   because of limited bandwidth)
> 
> The package builds fine in a cowbuilder chroot.
> 
> > - Tony: add Replaces: (or similar) tags for transition!
> 
> I don't think we even have to do this. The versions of the new packages
> are greater and we keep the old names too. Thus the new binary packages
> will simply replace the old ones. The new binary packages provided by
> src:insubstantial install completely new artifacts with different names.
> Hence I don't see how there could be a conflict. We will also make sure
> that all reverse-dependencies will build against the new version and
> then we just have to upload everything in one go.

Yes, this is a very clean approach.  Felix, I'm afraid that I was making
it more complicated than it needed to be.

> > - upload to experimental + fix r-deps jajuk, bgfinancas, triplea in experimental
> >   (patches: https://github.com/fnatter/insubstantial-debian/tree/rdeps/rdeps)
> > - upload all to unstable
> 
> Exactly. I will take a closer look at the package now and I intend to
> upload insubstantial to experimental tomorrow, if nobody voices any
> concerns.

This sounds great to me.  Markus, thank you for lending a hand.

Cheers,
tony

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