On Monday 13 July 2015 09:54:47 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 11:57:05AM -0700, Scarlett Clark wrote:
> > I am trying to do 5.3.2 backports and slamming into walls everytime I turn 
> > around. I am about to give up.
> > 
> > plasma-nm needs non existent modemmanager-qt-dev and I am told vivid needs 
> > a 
> > newer kf5.
> 
> plasma-nm needs the new modemmanager-qt which has moved to frameworks, if 
> it's hassle then just don't backport plasma-nm
> 
> > So I run the script for kf5 and get a pile of failures with not something 
> > we 
> > can merge. 
> > merge: origin/kubuntu_stable - not something we can merge
> > 
> > looking in gitgui kubuntu_stable does not exist. Are frameworks handled 
> > differently?
> 
> yes frameworks has no kubuntu_stable branch because upstream has only
> master branch and no separate stable branch. Probably this just needs
> a if frameworks then don't merge in the automation script.
> 
> > So now I am trying to do these by hand so I dont blow up CI again and
> > git-buildpackage-ppa -d vivid --distversion 15.04 does not generate the 
> > proper files for dput to upload the source and my uploads are rejected as 
> > no 
> > source is being uploaded.
> 
> git-buildpackage is a mystery and is my nemsis.  Somehow you need to get it 
> to pass -sa to debuild so it includes the .orig in the changes file.  looking 
> at git-buildpackage-ppa it has a line if args.suffix > 1:  application += 
> ["-sd"] so maybe remove that

That's the wrong solution. The problem is that in the past, we only used git 
for new archive versions so -S did the right thing. I made it default to -sa 
now like my old backport script did.

Philip

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