Dear Mentors, I have a question regarding packaging using git and the watch file in the Debian directory. There is an open bug 794438 for the KDE Partition Manager. The current package is broken in Sid. In the thread it was mentioned that the KDE Neon has a working package. When I pulled the git repo it was only the Debian directory. So what I was following [1]the git-buildpackage manual I cloned the partition manager git repo added the debian directory and was able to build a working package. However after looking closely I begun to wonder if I understood what I was doing. So the upstream repro appears to be on version 2.9.90 and preparing to go to version 3.0. However the version that I built was 1.0.3. I did not understand how this could have happened. Then looking in the Debian directory I saw that the watch file is referencing a Source Forge repo with the v1.0.3 tar ball. So my question is when I built the package did I need to pull code from the upstream repo? Did the build tools just pull the tar file down from sf and used it instead? Any help understanding will be appreciated[2]
Thanks Herminio -------- [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794438 [2] http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html#GBP.IMPORT.UPSTREAM-GIT
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