Hi Andreas, I succeeded at creating a get-orig-source that gets everything. I just hope it will be fine with next updates (some files are tgz or tar.gz...).
In the meanwhile the get-orig-source creates the orig file with the incremental copy stuff. So it should be fine now. Thanks Olivier Le 7/13/11 10:08 AM, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:12:38AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote: >> as I said in my previous email, upstream source is quite a mess. >> One need to mix several packages (not with the same version) and apply >> "patches" which are in fact some tar files containing only modified >> files.... > Ahhh, now I remember. > >> To avoid this mess, if you want, I can make the orig.tar.gz I created >> from upstream source available for download so that you get it. > Well, you explained that this is a mess - but you need to provide a > reproducible way for others to get the orig.tar.gz. As a precondition > we need at least a *working* watch file (just commited). > > Remark: When dealing with R packages which are frequently featuring a > '-' sign in their version I learned the hard way that it is better to > take over this versioning scheme. For the moment I took over this also > in circos and did s/0.54\.1-1/0.54-1-1/ in the changelog as package > version. I'm not specifically keen on this change. However, if you > prefer the '.' versioning scheme for upstream version you need to > prepend the string in debian/watch by > > opts="dversionmangle=s/\./-/" \ > > or alternatively > > opts="uversionmangle=s/-/./" \ > > to let uscan detect the proper version. > > This serves us with the latest patch set for circos. The proper way > to do is now to write a get-orig-source script which iterates down the > versions to the main release, fetches those tarballs and applies the > patches. Well, this is a bit of tricky work but it makes cooperation > and sponsoring and finally your own life easier for the future. > > If you are in a hurry we can cowardly work around this for a moment and > you upload your orig.tar.gz to mentors.debian.net. But please in this > case add a get-orig-source target in debian/rules which echos clear > advise (or cat README.Source or something like this). Otherwise people > might ignore this. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > PS: Alternatively you might want to talk to upstream whether they might > imagine to follow the release habits of so many other projects ... > -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (pgp.mit.edu) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
