Stan Vasilyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:23, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> What I would do if I were you would be to make the changes you need to >> make to the upstream debian directory to have the package work the way >> that it should and send the diffs back to upstream as a courtesy, but >> not wait for a new upstream release with those changes before >> uploading. When there's a new upstream release, you can then >> resynchronize, make whatever changes are still needed, and upload a new >> package. > My mentors taught me that a Debian package should be build from the > pristine upstream source downloaded from official website. In this case > it wouldn't work because the Debian .diff.gz applies to a version of > upstream source before it is officially released. Right, you want to do your packaging against the latest released version for the upload. If you want to separately forward-port your packaging to his next release candidate and send him a patch, that's very nice of you, but I would make it clear to him that you can't do the official Debian package that way; for the official package, it's strongly preferred to work from the last official release. >> I don't think removing an upstream debian directory is sufficient >> reason to repackage the upstream source. You can do the packaging as >> diffs against the upstream debian directory just as easily. Heck, if >> what upstream ships there is too annoying, you can always just blow >> away the debian directory in your working copy, create your own >> packaging, and let diff figure out the transform (although be careful >> of upstream files that you need to delete in your version). > But I end up repackaging the upstream source anyway. The .orig.tar.gz > is not the same file that Thierry puts on his website. Why? Do you have to remove some files for DFSG-compliance? > Plus, I usually look at the .diff.gz file to check the quality of a > package. With xdialog it's hard to do because there always is garbage > from the old version of debian directory in the diff.gz. filterdiff -z -x '*/debian/*' xdialog*.diff.gz filterdiff is part of the patchutils package. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
