Bug#777500: RFS: birdie/1.1-1 [ITP]

[Kay Abendroth <kay.abendroth@raxion.net>]

 Hello,

regarding my question number 9: I've found the answer myself and put the
man page file in a directory debian/manpages and created a file
debian/birdie.manpages.

But I've two additional questions, which refer to you intial comments.

10. the patch should have a proper dep3-style header

What do you mean by that? Is there a way to check the formatting of
patch files?

11. why is this patch needed? why are you creating the file in the name
of the upstream authors?

Not doing this results in the following error during package build:
kay@notepad:~/Debian/birdie/birdie-1.1-2/birdie-1.1$ debuild -us -uc
 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: source package birdie
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.1-2
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Kay Abendroth
<kay.abendroth@raxion.net>
 dpkg-source --before-build birdie-1.1
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean
   dh_testdir
   dh_auto_clean
   dh_clean
 dpkg-source -b birdie-1.1
dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)'
dpkg-source: info: building birdie using existing ./birdie_1.1.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: local changes detected, the modified files are:
 birdie-1.1/src/config.vala
dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes, see
/tmp/birdie_1.1-2.diff.ko8TCH
dpkg-source: info: you can integrate the local changes with dpkg-source
--commit
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b birdie-1.1 gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1376:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed

See also the attached file birdie_1.1-2.diff.ko8TCH


Regards,
Kay

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--- /dev/null
+++ birdie-1.1/src/config.vala
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+// -*- Mode: vala; indent-tabs-mode: nil; tab-width: 4 -*-
+/*-
+ * Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Birdie Developers (http://birdieapp.github.io)
+ *
+ * This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License
+ * (version 3 or later). See the COPYING file in this distribution.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
+ * License along with this software; if not, write to the
+ * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+ * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ *
+ * Authored by: Ivo Nunes <ivoavnunes@gmail.com>
+ *              Vasco Nunes <vascomfnunes@gmail.com>
+ */
+
+namespace Constants {
+    public const string DATADIR = "/usr/share";
+    public const string PKGDATADIR = "/usr/share/birdie";
+    public const string VERSION = "1.1";
+    public const string GETTEXT_PACKAGE = "birdie";
+    
+    // translatable strings for the .desktop file
+    private const string GENERIC_NAME = _("Twitter Client");
+    private const string COMMENT = _("Twitter client for Linux");
+}