En réponse à Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think that this can be the last question we need to answer before > starting the project[1]? > > I found rather tricky to use CVS for full handling of debian package > of > which we are not also upstream authors. I've used a bit > cvs-buildpackage > but I've not found it very handy.
Yes, it is a bit boring. And there is not svn-buildapckage though. > So my proposal is to keep on the Alioth SVN server only the diffs from > the original tarball, eventually including in the debian directory a > file which mention against which upstream version those diffs have to > be > applied. OK, so the directories will look like: <package>/debian What needs to be put in the package/ directory is usally diffs againt configure.in scripts when a change is necessary: running autoconf from debian/rules is a bad practice. For the rest of diffs, I usally use dpatch and I put all my patches are located in <package>/debian/patches. Patches are applied at debian/rules build, and unapplied at debian/rules clean. > In case of simple packages which requires no changes to upstream > directory we can keep simply the debian subdirectory, in other case > I'm > not sure what to do, but I guess we can use the "other way"(TM) to > package debian stuff which I've seen in packages like X or similar. X uses DBS which is not very handy. In that case, we can provide a shell script that build the proper tarball from the original source. Usually, we don't put tarballs in repositories. > Those packages include the original tarball as is and a set of patch > which are applied by don-t-remember-which debian tools during the > package building process. dpatch is a good one (apt-get install dpatch) > I've never used this system but I will be very happy to learn > something > new (in addition to SVN :-) > > What do you think about it? > > Cheers. > > [1] well we have also another important question: who start the alioth > project? If nobody else step forward, I volunteer ... If you have time, you can start it. "pkg-ocaml-maint" as project name (the leading "pkg-" is mandatory). And don't forget to follow the rules posted by Wichert about asking for SVN (cf. d-d-a). Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant
