Re: Joining pkg-multimedia team

[Andreas Boll]

2016-09-17 2:44 GMT+02:00 Nicholas D Steeves :
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 04:58:28PM +0200, Andreas Boll wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> my name is Andreas Boll, I'm a Debian Maintainer and I'd like to officially 
>> become part of the Debian Multimedia Team.
>> I'm also a member of the Debian X Strike Force where I co-maintain Mesa and 
>> related packages.
>>
>> I'm currently working on a backport of a newer version of Mesa and had to 
>> backport some additional packages. One of these packages is vdpau-video. So 
>> I'm maintaining the backport of vdpau-video for jessie-backports since 
>> yesterday (Thanks mapreri for sponsoring!).
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> It's good to hear from you!  Out of curiosity, are you participating
> in the jessie+backports installer image effort? (IIRC, the "Jessie
> half release" thread on -devel)
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas

Hi Nicholas,

not yet, but I'm planning to participate.

Thanks,
Andreas

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Re: Joining pkg-multimedia team

[Nicholas D Steeves]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 04:58:28PM +0200, Andreas Boll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my name is Andreas Boll, I'm a Debian Maintainer and I'd like to officially 
> become part of the Debian Multimedia Team.
> I'm also a member of the Debian X Strike Force where I co-maintain Mesa and 
> related packages.
> 
> I'm currently working on a backport of a newer version of Mesa and had to 
> backport some additional packages. One of these packages is vdpau-video. So 
> I'm maintaining the backport of vdpau-video for jessie-backports since 
> yesterday (Thanks mapreri for sponsoring!).

Hi Andreas,

It's good to hear from you!  Out of curiosity, are you participating
in the jessie+backports installer image effort? (IIRC, the "Jessie
half release" thread on -devel)

Cheers,
Nicholas


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Re: Joining pkg-multimedia team

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Andreas Boll (2016-09-16 16:58:28)
> my name is Andreas Boll, I'm a Debian Maintainer and I'd like to 
> officially become part of the Debian Multimedia Team.
> I'm also a member of the Debian X Strike Force where I co-maintain 
> Mesa and related packages.
> 
> I'm currently working on a backport of a newer version of Mesa and had 
> to backport some additional packages. One of these packages is 
> vdpau-video. So I'm maintaining the backport of vdpau-video for 
> jessie-backports since yesterday (Thanks mapreri for sponsoring!).
> 
> I already have an alioth account and joined the pkg-multimedia group.
> I'm subscribed to pkg-multimedia-maintainers and 
> pkg-multimedia-commits mailing lists.
> I'm familiar with handling bugs in Debian and I agree to review other 
> work to my best knowledge.

Welcome aboard, Andreas!

Sounds like you are well settled already, but if in doubt, just shout!

 - Jonas

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Re: Joining pkg-multimedia team

[Ross Gammon]

On 05/16/2016 04:38 PM, Lucio Carreras wrote:
> Hi Ross, thank you!

You're welcome :-)

> But I don't find a tutorial that mentions how to upload the public key
> for the git repository.
> https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git only tells that I should use ssh but
> I get a public key error.

https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH may be better.

> Other issues:
> 1. The Packaging with Git tutorials says, that I just have to call
>  gbp import-dsc /path/to/package_0.1-1.dsc
> 
>It's true, everything is imported but the directory structure is not as
>it is described in the tutorial
> 
>  $ ls
>  package/
>  package_0.1-1.orig.tar.gz

I would do:
mkdir sayonara
cd sayonara
git init
gbp import-dsc --pristine-tar /path/to/package_0.1-1.dsc

(It is also a good idea to add the --sign-tags option to the import
command, to sign the tags with your gpg key at the same time. But you
can always do it later).

>In my case there's no tar.gz file in the repository afterwards and no
>extra directory of my package. Just the files and directories which are
>located inside the my source tree. Also the debian directory shows up
>in the upstream as well as in the master branch. git diff master
> upstream
>shows no diffs between master and upstream. The tags are available.

The tarball should not be inside the repository. When you do the next
upstream release, you normally run uscan from inside the repository,
which downloads the tarball to ../ and renames it to *orig.tar.gz. Then
import it with:
gbp import-orig --pristine-tar /path/to/package_0.1-1.dsc

Using --pristine-tar, because this allows someone else (e.g. me) to
recreate the tarball from the git repository without having to download
it manually.

> 2. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging:
>"The git repository should be hosted in alioth, under the pkg-multimedia
>project. It should forward commit messages to
>pkg-multimedia-comm...@lists.alioth.debian.org and
>dispatch+pack...@tracker.debian.org"
> 
>I am relatively new to git and I could not find anything in the www. How
>can I do that?

Don't worry - I have already done it :-)

Once you have the import sorted out, and the SSH key up at Alioth, you
can push the repository using:
$ git remote add origin
git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/sayonara.git
$ git push --all --set-upstream
$ git push --tags

>"Do not commit debian/changelog along with the changes. This practice
> makes
> cherry picking and backporting changes unnecessarily hard."
> 
>How do users and especially testers know what has changed?

Just do the changelog last. You can automate a lot of this using gbp dch
(and editing out all the mistake commits that the users don't need to
read :-) )
See:
http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.releases.html

>"To indicate that the package is ready for upload, update
> debian/changelog
>to include the target distribution"
>I thought I should not commit it?

Some of the documentation out there is contradictory, as different
Debian Teams have slightly different workflows. I normally do the
changelog after I have finished a series of commits, and it is either
ready for upload, or I don't plan to do any more work for a while.
Someone else on the team can then pick it up and finish it if they have
the urge (normally after checking with you first).

> As you can see, I am a little bit confused right now. Any help is
> appreciated.

I hope that helps! Otherwise, just keep asking.




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Re: Joining pkg-multimedia team

[Lucio Carreras]

Thank you!

On 05/16/2016 06:02 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

Quoting Lucio Carreras (2016-05-16 16:38:49)

But I don't find a tutorial that mentions how to upload the public key
for the git repository.
https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git only tells that I should use ssh but
I get a public key error.

https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH

Welcome aboard!

  - Jonas



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Re: Joining pkg-multimedia team

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Lucio Carreras (2016-05-16 16:38:49)
> But I don't find a tutorial that mentions how to upload the public key 
> for the git repository.
> https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git only tells that I should use ssh but 
> I get a public key error.

https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH

Welcome aboard!

 - Jonas

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Re: Joining pkg-multimedia team

[Lucio Carreras]

Hi Ross, thank you!

But I don't find a tutorial that mentions how to upload the public key 
for the git repository.
https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git only tells that I should use ssh but 
I get a public key error.


Other issues:
1. The Packaging with Git tutorials says, that I just have to call
 gbp import-dsc /path/to/package_0.1-1.dsc

   It's true, everything is imported but the directory structure is not as
   it is described in the tutorial

 $ ls
 package/
 package_0.1-1.orig.tar.gz


   In my case there's no tar.gz file in the repository afterwards and no
   extra directory of my package. Just the files and directories which are
   located inside the my source tree. Also the debian directory shows up
   in the upstream as well as in the master branch. git diff master 
upstream

   shows no diffs between master and upstream. The tags are available.

2. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging:
   "The git repository should be hosted in alioth, under the 
pkg-multimedia

   project. It should forward commit messages to
   pkg-multimedia-comm...@lists.alioth.debian.org and
   dispatch+pack...@tracker.debian.org"

   I am relatively new to git and I could not find anything in the www. How
   can I do that?

   "Do not commit debian/changelog along with the changes. This 
practice makes

cherry picking and backporting changes unnecessarily hard."

   How do users and especially testers know what has changed?

   "To indicate that the package is ready for upload, update 
debian/changelog

   to include the target distribution"
   I thought I should not commit it?

As you can see, I am a little bit confused right now. Any help is 
appreciated.


Greetings,
Michael






On 05/14/2016 05:38 PM, Ross Gammon wrote:

On 05/14/2016 05:16 PM, Lucio Carreras wrote:

Hi Ross,

that would be nice :)

Done - repository is ready.


I am currently reading the packaging tutorials.

Just ask if you have any questions..

Ross



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Re: Joining pkg-multimedia team

[Ross Gammon]

On 05/14/2016 05:16 PM, Lucio Carreras wrote:
> Hi Ross,
> 
> that would be nice :)

Done - repository is ready.

> 
> I am currently reading the packaging tutorials.

Just ask if you have any questions..

Ross



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Re: Joining pkg-multimedia team

[Lucio Carreras]

Hi Ross,

that would be nice :)

I am currently reading the packaging tutorials.

Greetings,
Michael


2016-05-14 16:43 GMT+02:00 Ross Gammon :

> Hi Michael,
>
> Welcome to the team, I just added you on Alioth.
>
> On 05/14/2016 04:00 PM, Lucio Carreras wrote:
> > I am applying for the
> > pkg-multimedia team to maintain the package sayonara which has been
> > started and written by myself for about 5 years.
>
> If you like, I can set up the repository for sayonara, ready for you to
> push to. Just let me know.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ross
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Re: Joining pkg-multimedia team

[Ross Gammon]

Hi Michael,

Welcome to the team, I just added you on Alioth.

On 05/14/2016 04:00 PM, Lucio Carreras wrote:
> I am applying for the
> pkg-multimedia team to maintain the package sayonara which has been
> started and written by myself for about 5 years.

If you like, I can set up the repository for sayonara, ready for you to
push to. Just let me know.

Regards,

Ross



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