Re: Re: a proposal to update the abcm2ps package

[Patrice Duroux]

Hi,

Another point is that would it be better to separate /debian from the upstream
sources, I mean that providing only in each debian branches the content of
/debian directory and moreover having like 5 or 6 (experimental) branches for
something like the following:

wheezy (o-o-stable): 6.6.17-1
jessie (oldstable): 7.8.9-1
stretch (stable): 7.8.9-1
buster (testing): 7.8.9-1
sid (unstable): 7.8.9-1
experimental: 8.14.1-0.1

Is such a setting acceptable/expected?

I would have dreamed that 'gbp import-dscs --debsnap' would give me
automagically such a git repository (at least for all the branches it can).
:-)

Thanks,
Patrice

Re: a proposal to update the abcm2ps package

[Dmitry Bogatov]

[2018-12-14 13:01] Tong Sun 
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> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 10:27 AM Patrice Duroux wrote:
> 
> > And so here is the current work available at Salsa on my guest account:
> > https://salsa.debian.org/Peutch-guest/abcm2ps
> 
> I'm not an expert at all, but I think the project on Salsa should
> include 3 branches, including upstream, pristine-tar & debian.

Personally, I believe that `pristine-tar' is required only if upstream
ships PGP signature. Otherwise, restoring orig tarball from git tag on
`upstream' branch is good enough.

Re: Re: a proposal to update the abcm2ps package

[Patrice Duroux]

So I started to progress on that. Currently I think master=debian and now there
is an upstream. For pristine-tar, I don't know yet.
Also I have restarted the project using 'gbp import-dscs --debsnap' to keep more
traces of the past.
Thanks!

Re: a proposal to update the abcm2ps package

[Tong Sun]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 10:27 AM Patrice Duroux wrote:

> And so here is the current work available at Salsa on my guest account:
> https://salsa.debian.org/Peutch-guest/abcm2ps

I'm not an expert at all, but I think the project on Salsa should
include 3 branches, including upstream, pristine-tar & debian.

a proposal to update the abcm2ps package

[Patrice Duroux]

Hi,

This is more an exercise to teach how to deal with Debian packaging and
with Salsa.
I am not yet in contact with its DM, Anselm Lingnau, and neither with the
upstream authors.

But being now more familiar with git and git-buildpackage (thanks Guido!),
I have started to work on updating the abcm2ps package:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/abcm2ps
that does not have any Debian VCS.
And so here is the current work available at Salsa on my guest account:
https://salsa.debian.org/Peutch-guest/abcm2ps

Also it seems that there is a way to 'mirror' the origin github that is
there:
https://github.com/leesavide/abcm2ps/
Is it desired? required?

I am a bit lost between the old, the current and the close future good/best
practices regarding package maintenance even focusing on the
https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging resources.

So any feedback on this work is welcome.

Cheers,
Patrice