On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:03:28 +0100, Antonio Valentino wrote: > In the next days I plan to create projects in the debian git repo for > the following SW packages (each has an open ITP) > > polsarpro: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606876 > mapready: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606881 > snaphu: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606882 > gsdview: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606884 > > The idea is to put them all under the > > git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass > > and set the Maintainer field of the control file to > > Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> > > Please let me know if there is some problem in doing this or if there > is some different idea.
That's fine. > Please also note that, for the polsarpro package (only), I will put > under VCS only the debian directory since polsarpro orig archive is > quite large (227M) and includes about 166M of PDF files, binaries (172M > unpacked) and also the ActiveTcl8.4.13.0.261555-win32.exe SW > distribution (21M). > > Unfortunately a pure source code archive is not available. You should strip all the binaries and PDFs from the tarball. This is a common issue in Debian (think of java packages where most of upstreams embed *.jar files). To do this, please create a "get-orig-source" target in debian/rules, which should do all the needed steps to obtain a source-only (and *free*!) tarball. Also, your package should have a "special" version. Let's say it is version 1.0-1, it should become 1.0+ds-1 (+ds means "debian source" -- and 1.0+ds-2, 1.0+ds-3, and so on). You should take care of mangling the source version in debian/watch as well (read about dversionmangle). Once you've stripped all of those things, I believe the tarball will have a reasonable size to be committed ;) Also, since you're going to use git, please read about pristine-tar to store orig tarballs inside the repository itself. I'm available if you need help about the repackaging :) Ciao, David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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