Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-15 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-09-14 18:51, Thiago Franco de Moraes wrote: Hi all, Hi [...] * This library contains a bunch if bindings, one of them is java. These java bindings is compiled using ant. The compilations generates a bunch of .class and .jar files,

Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Martin Owens
Hey everyone, I'm trying to sort out the packaging of barry-0.17-git snapshots and it's got some undesirable features which is making packaging a pain and I don't really know what the best way to deal with them is. It's got multiple binary packages from the same source package which I get form

Re: reprepro signing.

2010-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:42:08PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The conventional way to handle this is to build a Debian package that installs the keyring and runs apt-key add, based off of packages like debian-archive-keyring, and then have all clients install that package. Or drops the key

Re: reprepro signing.

2010-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk writes: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:42:08PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The conventional way to handle this is to build a Debian package that installs the keyring and runs apt-key add, based off of packages like debian-archive-keyring, and then have

Re: reprepro signing.

2010-09-15 Thread David Kalnischkies
2010/9/15 Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:42:08PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The conventional way to handle this is to build a Debian package that installs the keyring and runs apt-key add, based off of packages like debian-archive-keyring, and then have

Re: Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com writes: Add to that the upstream has a tendency to merge in the debian changes into the trunk and I think he would like to merge in this directory too. I understand that upstream should avoid adding debian to their main code repository, is that right?

Re: Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com writes: Hey everyone, I'm trying to sort out the packaging of barry-0.17-git snapshots and it's got some undesirable features which is making packaging a pain and I don't really know what the best way to deal with them is. It's got multiple binary packages

Re: Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org writes: Hi! Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com writes: Add to that the upstream has a tendency to merge in the debian changes into the trunk and I think he would like to merge in this directory too. I understand that upstream should avoid adding debian to

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-15 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:21:29 +1000 Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:51:22PM -0300, Thiago Franco de Moraes wrote: * The Source is in git [3]. I'm not using the last stable version because I wasn't able to compile it. What's the policy to version

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:31:39PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org wrote: sigar-1.7.0~git833ca18ecfc1f3f45eaf8544d8cdafef6603772d Yeah, that isn't going to work -- what if the next SHA you want to package is 12345[blah]... it'll look like a lesser version to

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-15 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:18:20 +0200 Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:31:39PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org wrote: sigar-1.7.0~git833ca18ecfc1f3f45eaf8544d8cdafef6603772d Yeah, that isn't going to work -- what if the next

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:12:22PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: Why won't you just use `git --describe`? [...] Depending on your upstream's versioning scheme you may want to stick a tilde somewhere. For example, if the upstream tagged a branch that

Re: Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:44 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Do we need both? We have neither in Debian (testing/sid) it seems anyway. Personally I'd say no, but this is for a ppa/unstable so it probably has different considerations. At the same time, this is a request from upstream. Ubuntu

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-15 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: [...] I recommend against using dates to mark revisions, since there probably will be multiple commits in a single day, so there is no way to tell which exactly version you did package. [...] On one project where I'm upstream (not

Re: Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:44 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Do we need both? We have neither in Debian (testing/sid) it seems anyway. Personally I'd say no, but this is for a ppa/unstable so it probably has different considerations. At the same

Re: Advice on an interesting package

2010-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de writes: Christoph Egger christ...@debian.org writes: Well upstreams are encouraged to not include the debian/ stuff in their release tarballs. It might be better to have debian/ in a separat branch but having it in upstream VCS isn't a problem right

Re: Doubts in Sigar packaging

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:31:39PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org wrote: sigar-1.7.0~git833ca18ecfc1f3f45eaf8544d8cdafef6603772d Yeah, that isn't going to work -- what if the next SHA you want