<div dir="ltr">Hi Roberto,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for looking at the package, and for the quick feedback.</div><div><br></div><div>The lintian warning about the debian/changelog was now fixed, the line was shortened a bit to stay within the 80 character limit.</div><div><br></div><div>To make the transition from the old bibledit-gtk to the new bibledit easier, package bibledit-gtk was introduced again, as transitional dummy package to bibledit, and in a similar way bibledit-gtk-data as a transitional dummy package to bibledit-data.</div><div><br></div><div><div>I tested the upgrade cycle from bibledit-gtk 4.9 in Debian sid to the new bibledit 5.x. It works okay now, after the fields Depends, Replaces, and Breaks, were added to debian/control.</div><div><br></div></div><div>The debian/changelog now uploads to the experimental pool of packages, rather than to the unstable distribution. I had not realized that Debian 9 Stretch is so close to release now. Yup, good plan to upload this first release to experimental.</div><div><br></div><div>After stretch gets frozen, the next upload could be targetted at unstable again, even before release, or it needs to wait till after the release of stretch?</div><div><br></div><div>(Extra, unrelated, but perhaps interesting, info: There is also "bibledit-desktop" (<a href="https://github.com/postiffm/bibledit-desktop">https://github.com/postiffm/bibledit-desktop</a>), which really is a continuation from bibledit-gtk, renamed to -desktop, and is being developed independently by another developer.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Teus.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 at 19:42 Roberto C. Sánchez <<a href="mailto:roberto@debian.org">roberto@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">With attachment this time.<br class="gmail_msg">
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 01:37:44PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 04:46:05PM +0000, Teus Benschop wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> > Hi Roberto,<br class="gmail_msg">
> > Indeed, I had not thought of pushing the upstream and pristine-tar<br class="gmail_msg">
> > branches to the remote repository. Those two branches have now been pushed<br class="gmail_msg">
> > to the remote, and I expect it now to work fine. I did a quick check<br class="gmail_msg">
> > whether the file "bibledit_5.0.140.orig.tar.gz.delta" exists in the local<br class="gmail_msg">
> > repo, and it does exists there, so now after pushing them, I expect it to<br class="gmail_msg">
> > be okay now.<br class="gmail_msg">
> > Thanks for spotting the issue, and for recommending the fix, and for<br class="gmail_msg">
> > trying to build from Alioth.<br class="gmail_msg">
> > Regards, <br class="gmail_msg">
> > Teus.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Hi Teus,<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> No problem at all on my end. Thank you for getting everything corrected<br class="gmail_msg">
> so quickly.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> There are two additional items that need to be addressed before we can<br class="gmail_msg">
> upload:<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> - the debian/changelog causes lintian to complain (see attached)<br class="gmail_msg">
> - we will need a transitional dummy package for bibledit-gtk<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> I should have realized earlier that a transitional package would be<br class="gmail_msg">
> needed. Basically, we want to make sure that users don't end up with<br class="gmail_msg">
> orphaned packages on their systems. Right now if someone has<br class="gmail_msg">
> bibledit-gtk installed, when the new bibledit package becomes available,<br class="gmail_msg">
> the user will not see that it is the logical upgrade from bibledit-gtk.<br class="gmail_msg">
> The way to handle this is to add the bibledit-gtk package back to<br class="gmail_msg">
> debian/control and make it depend on bibledit. That will ensure that<br class="gmail_msg">
> the right thing happens. We will need to have that transitional package<br class="gmail_msg">
> in place until after the release of buster, at which time it can be<br class="gmail_msg">
> removed.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> Please make sure that you have tested the install -> upgrade cycle from<br class="gmail_msg">
> the bibledit-gtk 4.9 packages to the new bibledit 5.0 packages. That<br class="gmail_msg">
> will ensure that upgrades work properly for users.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> Also, one additional question: is unstable the intended target for this<br class="gmail_msg">
> upload? Since we are so close to release of stretch, it might be better<br class="gmail_msg">
> to target the first upload to experimental.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Regards,<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> -Roberto<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> --<br class="gmail_msg">
> Roberto C. Sánchez<br class="gmail_msg">
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