Le Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:56:01PM -0700, Shaun Jackman a écrit : > Hi Charles, > > I've just uploaded IGV 2.0.6-1. > > What do I do with the pristine-tar and meta branches? These branches > are new to me.
Hi Shaun, thanks a lot for bringing us IGV 2.0 ! the pristine-tar is a convenience branch that stores information necessary to re-create a bit-by-bit identical upstream archive (‘.orig.tar.gz’), so that it avoids problems of hashsum mismatches when uploading Debian revisions (perhaps you have seen these rejection emails on our maintainer mailing list). For some reasons, just doing ‘tar xfvz’ from the upstream branch (ignoring .git, of course) will not produce exactly the same file on different systems. The main helper tool we use to register an ‘upstream’ tarball (in the case of IGV, that is what the get-orig-source script produces) is ‘git-import-orig’ from the git-buildpackage toolkit. The meta branch is more of a personal experiment. Feel free to ignore it if it bothers you. In this branch I store mainly the build logs for each uploaded versions. In some cases, I found it very convenient for troubleshooting. I also store the signed .changes and .dsc files, but I am less sure how useful they are. Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
