Hi Andreas,
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
> So please let me rephrase what needs to be done:
>
> 1. Check out orig source using
> make -f debian/rules get-orig-source
>
Yes.
This will bring you the sources from the github repository.
(I presume that at some point, Bhaskar and/or Amul will
bless that code base, and maybe put it in a tar file in their
sourceforge distribution. I know that Amul was already
moving some of the changes to their upstream version.
In any case: Yes. the command (1) will bring you the sources
in two tar files named:
fis-gtm_5.5-000+git104-g4077ab8-1.debian.tar.gz
fis-gtm_5.5-000+git104-g4077ab8.orig.tar.gz
> 2. Use Build stuff in SVN to build the package
>
>
Yes.
I have been doing this with "debuild"
and have been adding "-d" because we are
using a very recent version of cmake (2.8.8).
I'm not sure how that affects the build in a
controlled environment...
Is this correct? If yes I'd be very happy to do this and upload.
>
>
Thanks,
We will be crossing fingers ! :-)
> Question: It seems development is strongly focussed on Git. It might
> sound natural to move the packaging also into Debian Med git. Do you
> agree and if yes do we want to do this step before we upload or after?
We could go either way.
Whatever is more consistent with Debian practices.
> Also if yes: If you regard the history of packaging as relevant would
> you volunteer to move the packaging in SVN to Git (I'm no Git expert
> I would only follow the instructions to create a new repository)?
>
>
I'm happy to help do this, just may need some guidance / mentoring.
on Debian Med Git rules.
Regarding the history... I don't think that we want to keep it for the
long run. Most of the work went into the CMakeLists.txt file, and that
was Brad and Amul working together. There was a lot of trial and
error experimentation in it.
Of course, Brad and/or Amul may have other preferences here.
I'm happy to defer to them on whether we want to keep the history.
Luis
