Re: Some questions on format 3.0 (quilt) multi-origin

2009-12-24 Thread Marco Nenciarini
Rene Engelhard ha scritto: Hi, On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:28:56AM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote: 3) When a new version of a component is released, how to handle it in the new source format? I can't find any standard place where to put meta informations regarding extra origin tarball.

Re: Some questions on format 3.0 (quilt) multi-origin

2009-12-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marco Nenciarini mnen...@debian.org writes: Rene Engelhard ha scritto: Hi, On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:28:56AM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote: 3) When a new version of a component is released, how to handle it in the new source format? I can't find any standard place where to put meta

Re: Some questions on format 3.0 (quilt) multi-origin

2009-12-24 Thread Marco Nenciarini
Goswin von Brederlow ha scritto: Marco Nenciarini mnen...@debian.org writes: I think the right way to include a new component or to update one is to bump the package source version. Something like: dovecot_1.2.7+plugin1.orig-libsieve.tar.gz This avoids to let dpkg-source (and the

Re: Some questions on format 3.0 (quilt) multi-origin

2009-11-20 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:28:56AM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote: 3) When a new version of a component is released, how to handle it in the new source format? I can't find any standard place where to put meta informations regarding extra origin tarball. I don't think there exist one.

Re: Some questions on format 3.0 (quilt) multi-origin

2009-11-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:28:56AM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote: 2) Talking of an hypothetic VCS-buildpackage using pristine-tar or similar tools, how it can known which component tarball need it to extract to create the right build environment? May be we should define a standard place under

Re: Some questions on format 3.0 (quilt) multi-origin

2009-11-20 Thread Ryan Niebur
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:28:56AM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote: Hi, I'm working on switching dovecot package to format 3.0 (quilt) and I wish to use the multi-origin option, because it comes as three source tar.gz [1][2][3] plus a patch [4]. I've done the initial switch [5] and it