Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-03 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, A Debian source package is constructed from a “pristine source” tree, plus Debian-specific changes. The pristine source is usually the tarball distributed by the upstream developer of the work. The ‘uscan’ tool, as configured by the ‘debian/watch’ file in the source package, allows ass

Re: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-03 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > For an example of this approach, see the ‘docutils-manpage-writer’ > package. The package is actually named ‘docutils-writer-manpage’. -- \“The errors of great men are venerable because they are more | `\ fruitful than the truths of little men.” —Friedrich N

ITP: a routing failover daemon

2009-03-03 Thread Russell Coker
I have written a little Perl program that can ping two routers and configure the routing table to route data to whichever router works. Among other things it can be configured to run a script when a router becomes available which can be used for a VPN. If there is already a good program in Debi

Re: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Finney (04/03/2009): > * Invoke the appropriate VCS tool to export the specified revision > from the VCS repository URL to a temporary directory. > > * Pack the temporary directory to an appropriately-named tarball in > the current directory. AFAICT, that doesn't ensure reproduci

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