Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:39:09AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alejandro Exojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.1031 +0100]: > > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > > > sources. If your diff is big because generated files are being > > > changed, then

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Jueves, 30 de Diciembre de 2004 10:39, martin f krafft escribió: > also sprach Alejandro Exojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.1031 +0100]: > > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > > > sources. If your diff is big because generated files are being > > > changed, th

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Lunes, 27 de Diciembre de 2004 03:29, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh escribió: > There is no "proper" way. You have two good choices, and one bad choice > IMHO (and I do have a lot of experience on this :P): (...) > 2. Patch the autotools files (*.in, *.am) at build time, make sure all > the buil

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Cameron Patrick
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alejandro Exojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.1031 +0100]: > > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > > > sources. If your diff is big because generated files are being > > > changed, then have ./debian/rules:clean target remove t

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alejandro Exojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.1031 +0100]: > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > > sources. If your diff is big because generated files are being > > changed, then have ./debian/rules:clean target remove them. Then, > > dpkg-buildpackag

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Lunes, 27 de Diciembre de 2004 03:07, Justin Pryzby escribió: > debuild is the frontend of frontends; try that. Thanks, I will try it. > > - Are not correct the packages that include generated files in the diff? > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > sources. If

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Alejandro Exojo wrote: > because upstream used automake 1.7.6 and unstable now haves 1.7.9 (in > automake1.7). This differences are now added to the diff.gz, but this doesn't > sounds to me the proper way. There is no "proper" way. You have two good choices, and one bad choi

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:56:28AM +0100, Alejandro Exojo wrote: > Hi. Good evening, > However, looking at other packages, I see huge diffs with more than 300K, and > including lots of generated stuff. So here are my questions: Often, the only useful thing the .diff.gz does is to create debian/.

Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-26 Thread Alejandro Exojo
Hi. I've been working this days in Debian packaging, and it was the first time I needed to patch the upstream sources, more especifically, the Makefile.am. I studied the patching stuff from other packages, and then, added the relevant lines to my debian/rules, and the patches to debian/patches/