On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 09:02:49PM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote: > On Sa 14 Mär 2020 00:36:21 CET, Martin Quinson wrote: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu-pkg-team/openboard/ > > > > could we however modify this git repository to use git-buildpackage? > > It makes things so much easier to maintain... > > > > Thanks for your work, > > Mt > > Sorry, no. I see myself in a constant process of removing more and more > files from the upstream Git tag/tarball, because files are non-DFSG for this > or that reason. I am not willing to pollute the salsa repo with these > changes. Ok, you know that better than I do. > To get openboard on salsa built, these steps should work: > > $ git clone https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu-pkg-team/openboard.git > $ cd openboard > $ debian/rules get-orig-source > $ debuild -uc -us -S -Zxz -d > $ dpkg-source -x openboard_<debian-version>.dsc > $ cd openboard-<upstream-version> > $ debuild -uc -us I just tried, and it fails on the last step because of missing dependencies. Maybe we could add a .gitlab-ci attempting these steps so that we see where we currently stand? > IIRC, the current version on the repo's master branch only works / builds > well on Debian testing/unstable. Do you have a list of tasks to be completed? I'm willing to help if I can (given my scarce spare time), but I feel a bit helpless here. You are clearly in the middle of something, and I'd really appreciate if you could save some time to explain what remains to be done and how one could help with this packaging. Anyway, thanks for this work. Mt -- So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. [..] Perhaps the world [is] in dire need of creative extremists. --- Martin Luther King, Jr
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