The common way to update the upstream source of a Debian package is:
1) Checkout the upstream branch.
2) Unpack a tarball of the desired version.
3) Commit all changes.
4) Tag the commit as "upstream/$VERSION".
5) pristine-tar commit /path/to/upstream/tarball.tgz
6) Checkout master/development branch.
7) Merge with the upstream
The only difference between the upstream branch and the
master/development branch should be the debian/ directory, so the merge
should go off without a hitch.
Updating to a date instead of a release tag is also a bit unusual.
~jaret
On 05/24/2015 10:28 PM, Anto wrote:
Hello Everybody,
I have learnt a lot in the last few days about some tiny parts in the
development of packages for Debian based distros. The result of that
is on https://git.devuan.org/anto/gentoo-eudev.
There are some annoying issues that I still cannot find the solutions
for.
I have tried to respect the efforts of others by preserving their
commits, but their last updates and commits on some files are not
being shown on the "Files" tab.
The other issue is that, there seems to be no way to add empty lines
after the code block as Markdown always removes them. For instance, I
would like to add an empty line above "On Debian wheezy installs" on
README.md file.
In regards to the licensing and setting the maintainer of the package,
since I didn't fork the whole repository I am not sure whether I need
to add the license and keep the previous maintainer or not.
Do you have any suggestions on the above issues?
A part from the above, I really appreciate any feedbacks from you
especially on which parts that I did wrong and whether there is
something that needs to be added or remove.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Cheers,
Anto
----
PS: Before you ask, yes I have been using the latest eudev package
3.0+ which is compatible with systemd-udev 219+ as shown below.
However, I prefer to use the packages from Debian wheezy repository as
much as possible.
root@hp8530w:~#
root@hp8530w:~# dpkg --list | egrep "udev|dbus"
ii at-spi2-core 2.14.0-1 amd64 Assistive
Technology Service Provider Interface (dbus core)
ii dbus 1.8.16-1+devuan1 amd64 simple
interprocess messaging system (daemon and utilities)
ii dbus-1-doc 1.8.16-1+devuan1 all simple
interprocess messaging system (documentation)
ii dbus-x11 1.8.16-1+devuan1 amd64 simple
interprocess messaging system (X11 deps)
ii gir1.2-gudev-1.0 219:3.0-1 amd64 libgudev-1.0 introspection
data
ii libaudclient2:amd64 3.2.4-1 amd64 audacious dbus remote
control library
ii libdbus-1-3:amd64 1.8.16-1+devuan1 amd64 simple
interprocess messaging system (library)
ii libdbus-1-dev:amd64 1.8.16-1+devuan1 amd64 simple
interprocess messaging system (development headers)
ii libdbus-glib-1-2:amd64 0.100.2-1 amd64 simple interprocess
messaging system (GLib-based shared library)
ii libdbus-glib-1-dev 0.100.2-1 amd64 simple interprocess
messaging system (GLib interface)
ii libgudev-1.0-0:amd64 219:3.0-1 amd64 GObject-based wrapper
library for libudev
ii libgudev-1.0-dev 219:3.0-1 amd64 libgudev-1.0 development
files
ii libnet-dbus-perl 1.0.0-1+b1 amd64 Extension for the DBus
bindings
ii libudev-dev:amd64 219:3.0-1 amd64 libudev development files
ii libudev1:amd64 219:3.0-1 amd64 libudev
shared library
ii python-dbus 1.1.1-1 amd64 simple
interprocess messaging system (Python interface)
ii python-dbus-dev 1.1.1-1 all main loop integration
development files for python-dbus
ii udev 219:3.0-1 amd64 /dev/ and
hotplug management daemon
root@hp8530w:~#
root@hp8530w:~# dpkg --list lightdm xfce4 xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg-video-all consolekit
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=========================================-=========================-=========================-========================================================================================
ii consolekit 0.4.6-6 amd64 framework for defining
and tracking users, sessions and seats
ii lightdm 1.2.2-4 amd64 simple display manager
ii xfce4 4.8.0.3 all Meta-package for the Xfce
Lightweight Desktop Environment
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+3~deb7u1 amd64 X.Org X server
ii xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.7+7 amd64 X.Org X
server -- output driver metapackage
root@hp8530w:~#
root@hp8530w:~#
root@hp8530w:~# dmesg | egrep "udev|Linux version"
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.18.12-1v0-hp8530w (root@hp8530w) (gcc
version 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5) ) #1 SMP Sun Apr 26 17:33:02 CEST 2015
[ 0.785118] udevd[67]: starting version 3.0
[ 0.785425] random: udevd urandom read with 2 bits of entropy
available
[ 3.236958] udevd[289]: starting version 3.0
root@hp8530w:~#
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