Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-12 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
The Fungi wrote on 2011-04-12 17:40: > While admittedly more recognizable for users of Western calendars, > an 8-digit ISO 8601esque datestamp is fairly low-density. With only > a couple more digits, you can have epoch seconds as your version > timestamp (as upstream, I actually just do 0.0. for

Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-12 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:49:22PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Agreed. In my packaging, I've been using 0.0.MMDD for that > purpose - assuming that when/if the upstream developers decide to > actually roll out a release, they'll use something larger than > 0.0.1 for a version number :) Whil

Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:14:23AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Paul Tagliamonte , 2011-04-11, 18:52: > >If there is really no release (and never going to be), > > (You can never know that...) > > >just pick a nice round number (such as 1.0), and keep git off that. > > > >Your version ID would lo

Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Paul Tagliamonte writes: > fluxbox 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2 Hmm, what is it common to have "git" before the date? What if upstream switches to a different VCS? Wouldn't you then need e.g. fluxbox 1:1.1.1+bzr20110412 to make sure your new version is actually newer? To me it would sound more l

Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Paul Tagliamonte , 2011-04-11, 18:52: If there is really no release (and never going to be), (You can never know that...) just pick a nice round number (such as 1.0), and keep git off that. Your version ID would look something like: 1.0[~|+]gitMMDD.HASHHASHHASH-1 Version numbers don

Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Hello, > > I plan to create a Debian package of a new software which only have a git > repository, but no archive file. How should I create such a Debian > package? > > Is it enough to copy the git repo from the internet, remove .git/, rena

creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-11 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, I plan to create a Debian package of a new software which only have a git repository, but no archive file. How should I create such a Debian package? Is it enough to copy the git repo from the internet, remove .git/, rename the main directory of the sources (-) and run dh_make with --crea