Hi
On 02.12.20 10:18, Marc Dequènes (duck) wrote: > On 2020-12-02 17:46, Stephen Kitt wrote: > >> Thanks for preparing these, I’m also preparing faudio 20.12 in >> parallel ;-). I haven’t checked vkd3d, but note for faudio that we >> don’t use gbp import-orig, we merge the upstream branch directly! I’ll >> have the upload ready today or tomorrow. > > Nice. Welcome duck! It's great to see you all working on Wine (again). I hope you catch up before the freeze. >> See README.source in faudio/debian for the update procedure, which can >> be simplified — I’ll update it in the next upload. > > I just read it and that's indeed a tad more complicated. I'm curious to > why you are using this method but I cannot find the reason explained > anywhere. Not that gbp is perfect but it's working quite well now and > make contribution way easier. Also in faudio's situation that means > there is no way to regenerate an identical tarball from the git repo > since pristine-tar is not used either. I don't want to force you into > anything you do not want but clearly this is a deterrent for > contribution (at least for me). Absolutely feel free to improve it :) I just tried to describe Mike's and my general workflow in the README.source - although we never formally discussed/described a common workflow and I just tried to mimic Mike's. > As for Wine itself, it looks more complicated but maybe I could help > too, if you're ok with this. I would gladly have accepted your offer when I was active! > It seems you wish to get a properly working > package for each and every version to be able to downgrade in case of > upstream regression IIUC. I think it's a useful goal but currently we're > 13 versions late so it would be nice to do something about it. I commented on that in my "parting" notes, sharing your feelings. Greets jre
