Evgeni Golov wrote:
> Hi Jose,
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:01:44AM +0100, José Luis Tallón wrote:
>
>> Evgeni Golov wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>> There is a fixed package awaiting sponsoring.
>> Sent to -mentors more than a week ago, with no responses so far.
>>
>
> Well, then it comes now:
> First of all -- thanks :)
> But, I think you got it slightly wrong with the format 3.0 (quilt)
> stuff. I for myself never touched this yet, but from reading, 3.0
> (quilt) should work as follows:
> - you DON'T have to build-depend on quilt
> - you DON'T have to include /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make
> - it JUST works (tm) :)
>
... unless you are backporting to lenny, where dpkg-source is not that
advanced.
In fact, since recent dpkg-source interact so cleanly with quilt, the
calls to quilt in debian/rules should effectively become no-ops.
That is: it is in fact NOT needed to add quilt-related calls to files in
the 3.0 format ...
... UNLESS you want to be kind to porters.
> On the other hand, I see two patches in your debian/patches, which were
> never applied and are not now either... It seems to be patched in your
> orig.tar.gz already.
>
The problem being that upstream author, Marco D'Itri, does not agree
with bindgraph being packaged for Debian.
Some time ago, I had to repackage bindgraph source (that's where the 'a'
suffix comes from) to include the changes with respect to the original
---which is unmodified since AFAIK ---
The patches are there to document the deviations from "pure upstream".
... which might mean a need for a README.Source, I agree
Only options are, hence:
- leave them as documentation of deviations from upstream ("less bad")
- revert to upstream source 0.2 + patches ---> absurdly big debdiff
for a trivial change, plus versioning paradox
- publish a new "completely unofficial" 0.3 version, including all
changes and/or upstream + patches applied at build-time
but I might be missing some other option. Any suggestions are welcome,
of course
> I'd be glad to sponsor your package if you do a little bit more cleanup
> ;)
>
If you sponsored couriergraph too, I'd be more than glad, too ;)
J.L.
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