Notes from Session foundations-p-udd-planning

2011-10-31 Thread Jonathan Riddell
http://pad.ubuntu.com/foundations-p-udd-planning Review of 11.10 Package importer updates * most work on importer and its reliability * cope better with launchpad downtime * mulltiple tarballs works * no longer pretending to be james westby * better import ordering * xz import recently added,

Re: Collision branches

2011-10-06 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 12:24:44PM -0400, James Westby wrote: In order to get some data on this I just looked back at 45 of these from the last month, and found: 9 that looked real, or at least feasible 2 that were caused by updates to .po files 4 that were caused by automatically

Re:bzr get-orig-source

2011-10-04 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 12:30:54PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: I think Jonathan means that if you use -nc (no cleanup of build directory), you have to cd ../build-area/mypkg-1.0 to get to the build directory. Yes, and then copy any changes to packaging back manually. Personally, I just use

The Packaging Guide Needs Your Help

2011-08-02 Thread Jonathan Riddell
The new Ubuntu Packaging Guide is nearing completion but needs your help. Browse it at http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/ Articles still to be written include -traditional packaging -working with Debian and upstreams and in the knowledge base section articles needed on python, gnome,

building the package to alter the packaging

2011-07-26 Thread Jonathan Riddell
In traditional packaging I would often build the package with debuild then make some changes based on the compile (edit .install files, add .symbols files etc) then check it works with debuild -nc then tidy up with debuild -S. Is there an equivalent in UDD with bzr-builddeb? If I run bzr

Re: building the package to alter the packaging

2011-07-26 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:12:11PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: My guess is that something like bzr builddeb -- -nc will leave the build directory in ../build-area around for inspection. You can then manually remove it afterwards. It does but you then have to revert to non UDD commands to

Re: building the package to alter the packaging

2011-07-26 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:24:01PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 12:20 +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:12:11PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: My guess is that something like bzr builddeb -- -nc will leave the build directory in ../build-area

patches

2011-07-25 Thread Jonathan Riddell
Writing the packaging guide chapter on patching highlighted for me that patches don't always work well with UDD. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-packaging-guide-team/ubuntu-packaging-guide/trunk/view/head:/patches-to-packages.rst (line 90) What are people's favourite tactics for the .pc

Fwd: [Merge] lp:~jr/bzr-builddeb/changelog-closes-bugs into lp:bzr-builddeb

2011-06-09 Thread Jonathan Riddell
This merge means that with bzr 2.4 (trunk) bzr commit will set the changelog from debian/changelog and set tags for any bugs closed in the changelog. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-builddeb/+bug/791893 Jonathan - Forwarded message from nore...@launchpad.net - Reply-To: