Re: don't use sbuild --dist/-d and other sbuild stuff (was: Re: Questions before my first upload attempt)

Hi, Quoting Jakub Wilk (2015-08-31 16:02:38) > * Johannes Schauer , 2015-08-31, 15:53: > >>From now on, "sbuild --dist sid --arch amd64 path/to/my.dsc" works. > > > >It must be mentioned that a common problem with sbuild is, that the > >.changes file it generates will have a

Re: don't use sbuild --dist/-d and other sbuild stuff (was: Re: Questions before my first upload attempt)

* Johannes Schauer , 2015-08-31, 17:06: So please don't further advertise the -d or --dist option anymore if you actually want to use the -c or --chroot option instead! Um, except that -d/--dist is obligatory. Without it you get: No distribution defined indeed I must've

don't use sbuild --dist/-d and other sbuild stuff (was: Re: Questions before my first upload attempt)

Hi, Quoting Danny Edel (2015-08-21 13:43:41) > On 21/08/15 13:21, Danny Edel wrote: > > Once sbuild is setup > > Just to clarify. In this use case (using sbuild as close to buildd as > possible), the steps labeled "for personal use" in > https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild#Configuration > are *not*

Re: don't use sbuild --dist/-d and other sbuild stuff (was: Re: Questions before my first upload attempt)

* Johannes Schauer , 2015-08-31, 15:53: From now on, "sbuild --dist sid --arch amd64 path/to/my.dsc" works. It must be mentioned that a common problem with sbuild is, that the .changes file it generates will have a *different* distribution from the one you set in

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: db.debian.org should be probably fixed show SHA256 fingerprints (in addition to MD5 fingerprints). db.debian.org is planned to be rewritten with python/django. You can use the www.debian.org pseudo-pacakge for the wiki, I guess... The wiki

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Paul Wise wrote: db.debian.org is planned to be rewritten with python/django. ... and help is needed for that. https://github.com/LucaFilipozzi/ud/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, i am trying to follow the instructions for SSH setup with alioth, after having been accepted as project member of https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-libburnia/ and promoted to admin in one sweep. The project has an SVN and two mailing lists. A ssh-rsa key has been uploaded via

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, sorry for the noise. After learning that it is a feature of Sid's ssh client, it was not too hard to find ssh -o FingerprintHash=md5 svn.debian.org which displays RSA key fingerprint is MD5:d7:0b:26:5c:7a:5d:56:40:a9:e0:5d:f4:e1:70:88:bf. Jessie's ssh client says by default: RSA

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

* Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net, 2015-08-28, 17:06: After learning that it is a feature of Sid's ssh client, it was not too hard to find ssh -o FingerprintHash=md5 svn.debian.org which displays RSA key fingerprint is MD5:d7:0b:26:5c:7a:5d:56:40:a9:e0:5d:f4:e1:70:88:bf. Jessie's ssh

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi Thomas So this in libburn4.install: debian/tmp/usr/lib/*/libburn.so.4* You can just say usr/lib/*/libburn.so.4* or even better usr/lib/*/libburn.so.* that way at the next soname bump you won't need to change the install files too. ($somebody might object that having the 4 makes you

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi Thomas, (please open an RFS if you need a sponsor, otherwise it might be difficult to track packages reviews and to actually have an upload) There will be no SONAME change as long as i am the upstream developer. ABI compatibility is one of the most important goals of my development. this

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, Gianfranco Costamagna: (please open an RFS if you need a sponsor, otherwise it might be difficult to track packages reviews and to actually have an upload) I will do if my direct approach to already interested people yields no success. But currently i seem to have upload problems. [1]

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: Um, no. We have literally thousands of packages shipping static libraries (in addition to shared libraries). Policy §8.3 says: “The static library (‘libraryname.a’) is usually provided in addition to the shared version.” Due to the

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, i wrote: Add myself to Uploaders ? Am i entitled ? Christian Kastner wrote: However: it appears that this package is team-maintained. In that case, you leave the Maintainer as-is, and add yourself to Uploaders. Adding myself to uploaders leads to new local warnings: W: libburn

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

* Gianfranco Costamagna costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it, 2015-08-24, 07:00: debian/tmp/usr/include/libburn/libburn.h debian/tmp/usr/lib/*/libburn*.a debian/tmp/usr/lib/*/libburn.so debian/tmp/usr/lib/*/pkgconfig/libburn-1.pc not sure why you ship a static library, we usually do not

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:50:04 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I configured dput for http, as shown in http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers Strangely it said ftp and not http in its messages: - $ dput -f

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi Thomas, If you dput $something, you need to wait until $something is processed, any later upload will fail because you can't overwrite the files in ftp unprocessed queue. So wait for the upload, get the email confirmation, and then dput again. According to the log you posted, seems that

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, gregor herrmann wrote: You're uploading to ftp.upload.debian.org and not to mentors.d.n. Duh (once again). This explains a lot. Meanwhile i bothered it with a libisofs upload attempt, too. Need to make me an upload script. I began to write quite a desparate answer to Gianfranco and to

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, i worked a bit more on my local libburn package. Shall/can i replace my yesterday upload by help of dput -f ? Regarding http://mentors.debian.net/package/libburn , i have hoepfully solved the complaints under Package closes bugs in a

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, i was able to fix debuild -b with compat 9 by changing the content of debian/libburn4.install from debian/tmp/usr/lib/libburn.so.4* usr/lib to debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libburn.so.4* usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu Next i wanted to ask: Is this remedy a valid solution ? But now i

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On 2015-08-23 12:48, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Hi Thomas, i worked a bit more on my local libburn package. [...] The failure of debuild -b with compat 9 still riddles me. With 9 it finally complains dh_install: libburn4 missing files (debian/tmp/usr/lib/libburn.so.4*),

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On 2015-08-23 16:08, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Remaining questions: - Shall i dput -f now ? Yes. I don't know if you have to remove the package first (eg via the web interface). Can someone more familiar with mentors.debian.net add some enlightenment here? - What to do about the complaint:

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, i wrote: $ gpg --verify ../libisoburn_1.4.0-1.1_source.changes ... gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! Johan Van de Wauw wrote: This indicates that you have not set a trust level for that key. If you run gpg --edit-key ABC0A854 type trust and set

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, somehow i managed to upload the non-working variant with Build-Depends: dh-autoreconf, pkg-config, debhelper (= 9), libcam-dev [kfreebsd-any] and probably debian/compat content 9. Can i overwrite the upload ? If i have to make a new version, then i first wait for some feedback. Have a

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On 20/08/15 18:33, Thomas Schmitt wrote: - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#How_do_I_make_my_first_package.3F Put a package together, built against a current version of sid. I'm on Jessie 8.1. The dependencies of the packages in question are very basic. The package sources

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, thanks for the answers. They helped me to achieve progress. So i really had to pass the can-he-install-sid-? test. I already began installing yesterday evening. It is instructive, but i would have preferred to postpone the qemu adventures until i explore passthrough of DVD drives. How

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On 21/08/15 15:42, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Well, i need to make some progress with uploading. So i'll go on with the VM for now. I need to learn a bit more about what sbuild does. On the long run it looks cleaner. Hi Thomas, sbuild basically implements what you have started to build in your VM.

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, Danny Edel wrote: Debian actually has ready-made VM scripts for you. https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild They urgently need advertising at the entry points of mentors.debian.net and at the upload instructions. call debuild -S on your host machine first: This will create a .debian.tar.xz

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, Danny Edel wrote: The main advantage of [sbuild] is the ...and throw everything away to get a clean starting point, so you have a reproducible and minimal build environment. Yep. Cleaner and thus more sensible to changes in environment. As said, i deem the source very portable and thus

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On 2015-08-21 13:21, Danny Edel wrote: On 20/08/15 18:33, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Else: Is there a shortcut description how to quickly set up Debian package development in a virtual machine and how to keep it up to date ? (Hardware is plenty but my own VM scripts date back to Debian 6.)

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On 2015-08-21 13:15, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I already began installing yesterday evening. It is instructive, but i would have preferred to postpone the qemu adventures until i explore passthrough of DVD drives. Yes, that makes sense. How about publicly available accounts on a sid machine,

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, after some fight with the keyring i am able to produce signed packages on sid. Will this warning be a problem ? $ gpg --verify ../libisoburn_1.4.0-1.1_source.changes gpg: Signature made Fri 21 Aug 2015 10:44:01 PM CEST using DSA key ID ABC0A854 gpg: Good signature from Thomas Schmitt

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, after some fight with the keyring i am able to produce signed packages on sid. Will this warning be a problem ? $ gpg --verify ../libisoburn_1.4.0-1.1_source.changes gpg: Signature made Fri 21 Aug 2015

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On 21/08/15 13:21, Danny Edel wrote: Once sbuild is setup Just to clarify. In this use case (using sbuild as close to buildd as possible), the steps labeled for personal use in https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild#Configuration are *not* what we want. The Source package will be created by debuild -S

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On 2015-08-20 18:33, Thomas Schmitt wrote: i am the upstream developer of freshly orphaned packages libburn4, libisofs6, libisoburn1, cdrskin, and xorriso. Now preparing to get them in shape for sponsorship and for closing old bug reports. By the way, in that case, you should retitle the

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On 2015-08-20 18:33, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Currently i am stuck at: - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#How_do_I_make_my_first_package.3F Put a package together, built against a current version of sid. I'm on Jessie 8.1. The dependencies of the packages in question are very

Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, i am the upstream developer of freshly orphaned packages libburn4, libisofs6, libisoburn1, cdrskin, and xorriso. Now preparing to get them in shape for sponsorship and for closing old bug reports. Thanks for taking

Questions before my first upload attempt

Hi, i am the upstream developer of freshly orphaned packages libburn4, libisofs6, libisoburn1, cdrskin, and xorriso. Now preparing to get them in shape for sponsorship and for closing old bug reports. Steve McIntyre offered his help (i hope this means sponsorship). But knowing how busy he is, i