On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 18:29 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:43:32PM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: > >On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 17:22 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:13 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >> > On 02/09/10 05:10, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >> > > >> > >>> So another approach would be to repackage the tarball to just > >> > >>> include the COPYING file. While we are at it, we could also use > >> > >>> the new Makefile and get rid of the other patch. > >> > >> > >> > >> Instead of using a quilt patch should I simply replace the > >> > >> Makefile with the new one and check that into the master branch? > >> > > > >> > > no, that would be pretty confusing. I'd rather do these changes > >> > > in the 'upstream' branch branch, and have a > >> > > wiimote-0.3.1.dfsg1.orig.tar.gz created or something. > >> > > > >> > > >> > The correct approach is to have upstream fix this, not us. In the > >> > current workflow, touching the upstream branch for stuff other than > >> > merging upstream versions is wrong IMO. > >> > > >> > >> Ok. It's in progress. I'll report back, when done. > > > >First off, many thanks to you all for your help. > > > >IOhannes helped me putting up a new upstream version 0.3.2, which has > >now a fixed Makefile and also a license file. So I could remove the > >quilt patch wierdness. > > > >I hope it looks OK now. > > I noticed you switched to source version 3.0 from quilt to native. I > would suggest to keep using the quilt flavor even if not currently > needing any patches: if at some point upstream code is changed - > accidentally or deliberately - we want it to be treated by packaging > routines as a patch, not a change by upstream.
Sounds reasonable. Done. Roman _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
