Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:
>> Am I right in thinking that the ‘get-orig-source’ target should ignore
>> the version strings in ‘debian/changelog’, and should instead get
>> whatever version is the latest available from upstream?
>
> I think the way that you're using it is more useful (and possible) than
> doing what an exact reading of the current text would indicate, and I do
> the same thing that you're doing.
FYI, from the ffmpeg-debian (and soon mplayer) package, we (or at least
I) use the following approach:
SVNDATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
debian/rules get-orig-source SVN_VERSION=${SVNDATE}
Debian rules detects the SVN_VERSION like this:
DEB_SOURCE := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n 's/^Source: //p')
DEB_VERSION := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n 's/^Version: //p')
UPSTREAM_VERSION := $(shell echo $(DEB_VERSION) | sed -r 's/[^:]+://;
s/-[^-]+$$//')
SVN_VERSION := $(shell echo $(UPSTREAM_VERSION) | sed -nr
's/^[0-9.:-]+\.svn([0-9]+)$$/\1/p')
[...]
get-orig-source:
dh_testdir
chmod +x debian/strip.sh
sh debian/get-orig-source.sh -d$(SVN_VERSION)
The proposed approach features:
- a seperate shell script for the actual work
- debian/rules figuring out the current version from debian/changelog
- user is able to override the exact upstream version
(obvious) issues:
- in this context, only midnight snapshots are possible
- if upstream changes the VCS location or its layout, this mechanism
will break
- regex determining SVN_VERSION is very dependent on the choosen
versioning scheme. mplayer and ffmpeg need to use a different regex!
I believe this approach matches both the letter and the spirit of debian
policy notes about that target.
Suggestions how to simplify this (espc. the get-orig-source.sh script,
see the branches on git.debian.org) are appreciated.
--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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