Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 17-05-13 08:01, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Chow Loong Jin hyper...@debian.org mailto:hyper...@debian.org wrote: On 17/05/2013 01:01, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Patch releases are NOT available as zip files and the list of

Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/17/2013 01:02 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: I am having trouble with my package jquery-jplayer (a JavaScript library with Flash fallback) and I would like to ask for advice on how to proceed I would suggest asking upstream again to

Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-18 Thread Olivier Berger
Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes: Oh. my. god. Just ask your upstream to do proper releases rather than manually *pointing* to git commits? Really, this kind of behaviour is horrible, and causing you all kinds of problems. I doubt you'll be the only one who's having problems;

Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-17 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Chow Loong Jin hyper...@debian.org wrote: On 17/05/2013 01:01, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Patch releases are NOT available as zip files and the list of wrongdoings is long: - Patch releases are only available from the git repository

Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-16 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello, I am having trouble with my package jquery-jplayer (a JavaScript library with Flash fallback) and I would like to ask for advice on how to proceed Major and minor releases are available as zip files from the official website ( http://jplayer.org/download/ ) and they are tagged in the git

Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-16 Thread Игорь Пашев
Put git updates as a patch, e. g. debian/patches/git-update.patch Bump debian part of version as usual. AFAIK python is packaged in this way -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 17/05/2013 01:01, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Patch releases are NOT available as zip files and the list of wrongdoings is long: - Patch releases are only available from the git repository Maybe I'm daft, but I can't seem to find any patch releases, actually. Where are they stored? --

Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: I am having trouble with my package jquery-jplayer (a JavaScript library with Flash fallback) and I would like to ask for advice on how to proceed I would suggest asking upstream again to properly git tag patch releases, make branches