[med-svn] [kineticstools] 01/01: Add README.source to explain how to get new upstream versions

[Afif Elghraoui]

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commit 21c595719647fd695a9398b7f4875d358440b6ec
Author: Afif Elghraoui <afif at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jan 15 12:36:18 2017 -0800

    Add README.source to explain how to get new upstream versions
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 debian/README.source | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
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+kineticstools for Debian
+-------------------------------
+
+Importing New Upstream Releases
+===============================
+
+Since upstream has ignored the request to tag releases [1], we use the
+following approach to retrieve the upstream source.
+
+* Use the upstream Git annotations for setup.py [2] to find the commit that
+  updates the version string.
+* Download the tarball corresponding to that commit.
+* Update the version accordingly in debian/changelog
+* run mk-origtargz on the downloaded tarball in order to repack the tarball
+  and remove non-DFSG files (declared in debian/copyright)
+
+
+1. https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/kineticsTools/issues/49
+2. https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/kineticsTools/blame/master/setup.py
+
+ -- Afif Elghraoui <afif at debian.org>, Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:35:59 -0800
+

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