On 10/02/16 19:53, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi, > > This is an email sent to me by Daniel Reurich<[email protected]> > > Begin Email Quote: > > Hi Edward, > > I've forked and tried to build your project: > https://git.devuan.org/net/simple-netaid > > It's failed to build the sources for a very basic reason: > > You need to decide if this is primarily a native Devuan/Debian > project or an upstream project being packaged for Devuan. Either is > fine, but currently the packaging appears to be a half way between. > IE; you have a patch series that indicates a quilt package but no > upstream branch, tags, tarball or pristine-tar branch of the original > unde[bi|vu]anised sources. > > I suggest either merge the patches into the source, and change the > source format to either "3.0 (native)" or "3.0 (git)" (we support > gitsrc in our build system unlike debian), or alternatively produce > either a separate upstream branch of the clean sources, or a pristine > tar branch (pain in the arse - I don't recommend this) or even just a > plain old tar ball. > > I guess the choice comes down to your primary target. If you > developing this primarily for Devuan then native or gitsrc formats are > fine. I'd vote for gitsrc but I'm biased due to having added the > support for that format to our build system and I don't understand why > you'd want tarball based srcs for packages developed and built from > git. > > I can do the conversion to gitsrc for this pretty quickly and > painlessly and get this building in Devuan. > > Let me know. > > End Email Quote: > > > If I am understanding well, the state of my sources is in a hybrid > state between Debianized and Non-Debianized.
No, you have quilt style patches in what otherwise appears to be a native package. > > Can anyone have some patience to explain to me what commands, I assume > git commands, I have to run to do what Daniel (Centurion_Dan) is > asking? My textual source files are already up to date, so what will > patching actually do? > either provide a separate non-debianized tar.gz source or change to a native or gitsrc package. > Should I edit debian/source/format to contain: > 3.0 (native) > > instead of > 3.0 (quilt) > Yes, (thats if you want to treat it as a primarily devuan oriented package), and then you need to do "quilt push" to apply the patches and then delete the patches folder > Thanks, Edward. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Daniel Reurich Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd. 021 797 722
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