Bug#830207: good to see audiorecorder in Debian
David,
thank you for your mail.
On 14.02.2017 16:57, David Rabel wrote:
> Thanks for your offer and of course I would appreciate your help.
Awesome. Just add me to the uploaded fields as "Rolf Leggewie
<foss@rolf.leggewie.biz>" please.
> A few words regarding the workflow: Because Osmo publishes
> audio-recorder as an Ubuntu package, it already contains a debian/
> directory. So I download the latest tarball, untar it, delete the
> debian/ directory and tar it again.
That's actually much more complicated than it needs to be. While it
does make sense to ask upstream to stop shipping a debian directory,
DebSrc3.0 which I believe is by now the default will overwrite any
directory if you want that. The debian directory is always overridden
(c.f.
https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#Advantages_of_new_formats).
You only need to repack things if upstream tarball contains
undistributable content according to DFSG (not licensed for
redistribution, etc.).
> I work with git and gbp, so the all the packaging work is done in a
> git repository.
That's what I use for my other packages, too, so I'm very familiar with it.
> That is https://github.com/NoreSoft/audio-recorder at the moment. I am
> not a big fan of github, but chose it for simplicity. If you prefer
> something more free, let me know. If not, I could just give you write
> access to the repo.
You could host at alioth but personally I like github. My account on
github is leggewie.
Upstream uses launchpad.net which recently got git support. We might
look into moving the debian packaging there. Do you know if upstream is
proficient in git?
>> "(C) linux community" really isn't saying anything at all so I am
>> going to have
>> to REJECT. Also missing other references (eg. Rosetta, but I stopped
>> looking there)
> So I am not quite sure yet how to handle this. My first idea is to ask
> Osmo if he may have this in more detail.
Anything passing through NEW will get the fine comb when it comes to
copyright. You need to look at every single file before uploading.
That's normal and you should prepare the upload accordingly.
Regards
Rolf
Reply to: