On 4 June 2010 at 13:15, Steffen Moeller wrote: | Package: r-base-dev | Version: 2.10.1-2 | Severity: wishlist | | Hi Dirk,
Hola, | this is just for the back of our both minds in the case the someone | develops some concept on how to change the behaviour of the default | get-orig-source. The current implementation checks the DESCRIPTION | file, but when the debian folder is in some svn repository | aiming at merging with upstream, then that DESCRIPTION file is | not existing. | | $ ./debian/rules get-orig-source | awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `DESCRIPTION' for reading (No such file or directory) | awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `DESCRIPTION' for reading (No such file or directory) This makes no sense whatsoever .... unless one assumes that you 'silently' moved from r-base to any of the r-cran-* packages as only the latter have files names DESCRIPTION. | The spontaneous reflex is to | | if [ -r DESCRIPTION ]; then | # do what is done today | elif [ -x /usr/bin/uscan ]; then | /usr/bin/uscan --verbose --force-download | else | echo "Cannot download sources, please add a debian/watch file or initiate download manually." | fi Am I presuming that you aim to have a change in behaviour in r-cran.mk so that r-cran-* packages can be changes? If so, can you please supply a full patch against the newest version, and presumably test it first on a few r-cran-* packages? I use this for 2300 packages at cran2deb and hate when it breaks. Dirk | Many thanks | | Steffen | | -- Regards, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
