On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 02:22:32PM +0200, Alexander Sack - Debian Bugmail wrote: > Thanks for the patch. I will include it, but would suggest some improvements.
Yes, and the patch also needs to not have current working directory in the package source main, as per get-orig-source suggestion in http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules > Nevertheless, maybe we should define the upstream version in an external > file and add a target that upgrades the package to a user defined upstream > version. This would include to cp the whole source tree to a directory names > ${pkgname}-${version} (e.g. cp -r mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.2 to > mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6), upgrade the upstream tarball, remove the old > upstream tarball (e.g. rm > ${pkgname}-${oldversion}/archives/${sourcetarball-prefix}-${version}-${sourcetarball-postfix}. > The final steps would be to produce a new orig.tar.gz (tar cvzf > ${pkgname}_${uversion}.orig.tar.gz > ${pkgname}-${version}/archives/) and prepend some boilerplate code to the > debian/changelog file (e.g. a valid entry, with an initial comment: new > upstream version ${version}). > > What do you think? It's a good idea. I've tried doing it manually bug so far I've failed. One problem at least is that "clean" debian/rules target wants to do "dounpatch", which of course fails if the whole build-dir is missing. (For the other issues, I must re-read the policy and other manuals as I don't seem to grasp the differences between dpkg-source et al -- a stupid developer error..) > > The makefile dependencies could be better (i.e. get-orig-source > > provides dfsg source and build depends on dfsg source etc). > > > please no dependencies. The upgrade tarball is a manual operation and should > not be done automatically ... in any case. With dependency I mean "if archives/*dfsg.tar.gz does not exists, create it through get-orig-source". The end result -- upgrade to new upstream -- is the same as your suggestion above which I suppose you like better. :) -Mikko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
