Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:30:32AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Sonntag, den 17.02.2008, 23:58 +0100 schrieb Bas Wijnen: [..] The get-orig-source target specifies that it must work from anywhere. Where do you read this? The policy says, that it [..] may be invoked in any directory

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 17/02/2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: If you want to document how/why you re-packaged the source for Debian, this should be in README.Debian-source. No, that is supposed to be in debian/copyright. See recent discussions on -mentors, then moved to -devel -policy, subthread starting around

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080217 07:31]: For ensuring the exact tarball that was used to generate the orig tarball is used. But we keep them allready on alioth. So a get current orig target would be quite easier as an wget from the pkg-games website, wouldn't it? Yours sincerely,

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 16.02.2008, 23:10 -0500 schrieb Andres Mejia: I have two questions. First question is; Is it at all possible to write a get-orig-source target that calls an external script to handle generating the orig tarball? Of course. The problem I'm facing is when the

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Andres Mejia
On Sunday 17 February 2008 4:04:41 am Bas Wijnen wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:39:03PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: Andres Mejia wrote: Is it at all possible to write a get-orig-source target that calls an external script to handle generating the orig tarball? Aside from the

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:02:21 -0500 Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Sunday 17 February 2008 4:04:41 am Bas Wijnen wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:39:03PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: To find the path, $(dir $_)/script can be used, to make sure it works from any

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Andres Mejia
On Sunday 17 February 2008 8:31:11 am Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080217 07:31]: For ensuring the exact tarball that was used to generate the orig tarball is used. But we keep them allready on alioth. So a get current orig target would be quite easier as an

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080217 17:21]: For ensuring the exact tarball that was used to generate the orig tarball is used. But we keep them allready on alioth. So a get current orig target would be quite easier as an wget from the pkg-games website, wouldn't it? That's

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Andres Mejia
On Sunday 17 February 2008 11:37:54 am David Paleino wrote: Il giorno Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:02:21 -0500 Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Sunday 17 February 2008 4:04:41 am Bas Wijnen wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:39:03PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: To find the path,

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Andres Mejia
On Sunday 17 February 2008 1:35:05 pm Alexander Schmehl wrote: Hi! * Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080217 17:21]: For ensuring the exact tarball that was used to generate the orig tarball is used. But we keep them allready on alioth. So a get current orig target would be

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:30:42PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: Il giorno Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:59:51 -0500 Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Sunday 17 February 2008 11:37:54 am David Paleino wrote: Why not using $(CURDIR)? It should give you the dir where debian/ is located

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:59:51 -0500 Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Sunday 17 February 2008 11:37:54 am David Paleino wrote: Why not using $(CURDIR)? It should give you the dir where debian/ is located (i.e. $(CURDIR) == debian/../). I've always used it in my

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 17.02.2008, 23:58 +0100 schrieb Bas Wijnen: [..] The get-orig-source target specifies that it must work from anywhere. Where do you read this? The policy says, that it [..] may be invoked in any directory [..]. To my understanding, this is not a must work from anywhere. I agree,

Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-16 Thread Andres Mejia
Hello, I have two questions. First question is; Is it at all possible to write a get-orig-source target that calls an external script to handle generating the orig tarball? The problem I'm facing is when the get-orig-source target is written like: get-orig-source:

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-16 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andres Mejia wrote: Second question is regarding a get-orig-source target I have for the package mediatomb. It goes like: # Common variables used to ease maintenance of the get-orig-source target. MEDIATOMB_TARBALL = mediatomb-0.10.0.tar.gz MEDIATOMB_VERSION =

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-16 Thread Andres Mejia
On Sunday 17 February 2008 12:52:30 am Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andres Mejia wrote: Second question is regarding a get-orig-source target I have for the package mediatomb. It goes like: # Common variables used to ease maintenance of the get-orig-source

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:10:01PM -0500, Andres Mejia wrote: Second question is regarding a get-orig-source target I have for the package mediatomb. It goes like: # Haven't found a way to use this without running it twice COMPUTED_CHECKSUM = $(shell md5sum $(MEDIATOMB_TARBALL) | cut -d ' '