On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:43:49 -0800 Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-11-25, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On 2014-11-25, Peter Howard wrote:
Hi there, I'm a long time Debian contributor of l10n-portuguese team. I have using zoneminder for surveillance of my house and I'd like to help you maintaining the package on a good shape for future Debian releases. > >> we should start using a git repo for the debian-specific work. > >> Vagrant - can you set up a git repo for ZM and clone from ZM > >> upstream? We can then bring over the debian directory, apply the > >> recent NMU patches, and make that the basis for further work. > > > > Yeah, I can migrate it over to git, and at least preserve some of > > the history. I've actually been using git-remote-hg lately, but the > > histories of the repositories are different... but I can probably > > get them both into one repository, even if I have to use a hammer. > > Ok, hammered them together using "git merge -X theirs v1.28.0" > followed up with removing files not present upstream (other than the > debian dir, obviously), and uploaded the repository to collab-maint > git. There were a few upstream tags that conflicted with the tags > generated from mercurial, I kept the upstream ones. I already have some knowledge of how to maintain packages with git using collab-maint repositories. I realized the repository that was created for zoneminder is slightly different from the recommended. [...] > I didn't update the packaging to 1.28.0, but the master branch on > alioth has 1.28.0 upstream merged in. Not sure how much work it will > be to update the packaging, but happy to help. > > Also, might want to consider some of the proposed naming conventions > laid out in: > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep14/ What do you thing about the approach that I used? https://git.msantana.eng.br/zoneminder.git/ I did some minor changes and I could generate the package getting some minor warnings from lintian. It's missing to update the debian/rules according the standard-version 3.9.6. I hope to be able helping more. Regards, -- Marcelo Santana (aka msantana) <[email protected]> http://blog.msantana.eng.br | http://identi.ca/mgsantana GnuPG fprint: 88FB 5D63 ED02 3B5D 90D6 3A3E 8698 1CC9 89C5 5467
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