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From: Archisman Panigrahi <apanda...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: Bug#920039: RFS: brightness-controller/2.2.3 [ITP]
To: Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>


Hi,

I have uploaded version 2.2.3-1.
Now the /usr/bin calls the interpreter python to run
/usr/share/brightness-controller/init.py.

Thanks,
Archisman

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:05 PM Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 07:54:45PM +0530, Archisman Panigrahi wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 5:41 PM Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 04:57:20PM +0530, Archisman Panigrahi wrote:
> > > > I am not sure about the native package issue. Has it got something to
> > > > do with /debian/source/format? I did not exactly understand what is
> > > > the difference between native and quilt, so went for native. Any
> > > > suggestion is welcome.
> > >
> > > The "native" format is adequate only when there's no separate upstream
> (and
> > > often not even then); in this case you are packaging Amit's software
> that
> > > has proper releases, tarballs, and all proper trappings.
> > >
> > > The packaging is supposed to be composed of two pieces:
> > > * the upstream (.orig) tarball
> > > * a packaging tarball, that includes the debian/ dir and a (possibly
> empty)
> > >   patch series
> > >
> > > This was somewhat different with the 1.0 format, but you don't want it
> --
> > > even if you (like me) despite quilt, the "3.0 (quilt)" format with a
> single
> > > patch is strictly better than 1.0.
> >
> > I am now using 3.0 (quilt). I have uploaded a new release (under the same
> > version number), please check.
> > There is some lintian error
> > "debian-changelog-version-requires-debian-revision". Is it due to the
> fact
> > that the debian/changelog in .orig.tar.gz
>
> Lintian has a nice set of explanations for its error messages, they get
> enables by "-I".  These tend to be better than one-paragraph responses
> reviewers like me reply with (even though an automated tool is not as good
> at understanding the context).
>
> In this case, the version number should end in "-1".
>
> > init.py calls other python files in usr/share/brightness-controller/ui
> and
> > usr/share/brightness-controller/util, so I want init.py
> > to be in usr/share/brightness-controller/ as well. Otherwise I will need
> to
> > import them across directories which I want to avoid.
>
> That's a Python specific question, I can't answer those.  I'm afraid that I
> need to pass you to other people on this mailing list.  If you happen to
> have any Perl questions, though...
>
>
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