I've been playing around with the package a little more and have noticed that it needs the win32/ dir etc. when building.
I guess maybe it is best I leave it as it is... sorry for the noise. Pricey On 01/06/07, Joseph Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/06/07, Per Inge Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've had a little play this afternoon and am enjoying the game and > > > definitely want to get it sorted for Gutsy's release in November. > > > > Sounds great! > > > > > Although Ubuntu does accept .tar.bz2's It would be better if you could > > > release as tar.gz - this is completely unessential though. > > > You have distro-specific buildfiles in your source, (win32, macosx & > > > debian/ ) Would it be possible for you to release a "clean" tarball > > > without any of this? (including without the debian/ ) > > > > May I ask why this three commands shell operation (bunzip2; rm; gzip) > > should be done by us rather than by the package maintainer? I have > > never heard of any such request from any other package maintainer for > > any other free software project I have been involved in. Nor do I see > > why it matters for Ubuntu that there are tiny build scripts for other > > system in the package. > > > > - Per > > > > Its a "chain of trust" thing. Best case scenario is that the source > tarball (minus diff) I submit to revu is direct from upstream. Anyone > can independently download the tarball from both locations and md5sum > it to instantly get the same string, knowing that I haven't hacked a > trojan into the original source. > > I "could" mess about with debian/rules and get add rules to download > latest source, untar, rm, retar and submit this along with > instructions on how to get-orig-source and check but its a bit more > work on my end and would make it more difficult for me come gutsy+1 > when you've also changed your debian/ and my diff won't apply anymore. > > As far as I'm aware it is "bad practice" to ship debian/ with your > upstream. Most keep it in seperate svn repositories etc. > > If you don't want to do this for me for whatever reason its no problem > and I'll just work around it :) > > Pricey > _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
