Hi Lukas, On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 07:02:43PM +0100, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: >Hi, > >I've packaged a new version of syslinux based on the current syslinux >git state. This allows dropping 12 of the patches of our patch queue, >leaving only few of which I have forwarded most to upstream :) . While >I would prefer upstream releasing a new version or pre-release, I think >that having such a huge patch queue is worse than packaging syslinux >from its git repository directly. I've experimented quite a bit with >this version and have not encountered any problems so far. > >Apart from updating to a new version, the only notable change is that I >added upstream's diagnostic utilities and special purpose MBRs (which >are needed in a few special cases) to the package. This should give us >more options when dealing with bug reports. The files only have >negligible size so I decided against introducing a new binary package >for them. > >I hope that this update also fixes the unreproducible builds on i386 >reported by the reproducible builds project. At least the instances >where "ar" is passed object files in a non-deterministic order that I >found in the build logs should now be deterministic. > >I do not want to upload a new version of syslinux to unstable until the >next stretch point release: I want to keep the codebase in testing >similar to the stretch-pu so we get more testing of that version. > >I've chosen 6.04~git… as a version number, since upstream has already >increased the version number to 6.04. The version number allows me to >update to 6.04~preN if upstream publishes another pre-release (without >having to change the epoch). > >The version for experimental is available in the git repository from the >debian/experimental branch which I've just pushed: > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-cd/syslinux.git
All looks good, except... gbp:error: Error creating syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1.orig.tar.xz: Pristine-tar couldn't checkout "syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1.orig.tar.xz": fatal: Path 'syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1.orig.tar.xz.delta' does not exist in 'refs/heads/pristine-tar' Did you forget to push the pristine-tar branch maybe? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Dance like no one's watching. Encrypt like everyone is. - @torproject
