[Debian-med-packaging] r12859 - trunk/packages/ginkgocadx/trunk/debian
Dmitry Smirnov
onlyjob at member.fsf.org
Mon Jan 28 11:37:16 UTC 2013
Hi Andreas,
good to hear from you. :)
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:12:29 Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> very cool - many thanks for your work - I was about to start spending
> time into this and now I see it's done!
Your abilities to follow the changes in debian-med are truly awesome. I was
just going to write to you when I've noticed your reply.
> That's really great - thanks for this.
It's a pleasure. :)
There are many changes in this release and I think it's time to put it to
experimental. I put source package to
http://mentors.debian.net/package/ginkgocadx
Would you be able to upload it when you have time?
I presume you've already seen the changes in repository... :)
What do you think?
> BTW, regarding the get-orig-source target: A lot of these things could
> be done by using the enhanced / not yet officially available uscan
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/UscanEnhancements
>
> IMHO the only thing that is not possible to do is the fix permissions
> thingy (but this should be reported upstream anyway. If you are
> interested in these uscan enhancements you might like to check this out.
Thanks for reminding me about it. I've seen your effort regarding improving
uscan but frankly I wasn't following it closely.
I prefer get-orig-source to direct uscan invocation because the latter
requiring to keep too many command line arguments in mind. uscan have many
caveats especially if running from top-level directory with more than one
package in it or if current-working-directory is not where the package is.
When uscan uses its configuration file its behaviour becomes even less
straightforward.
After bumping to many troubles with uscan I started to put all the "correct"
arguments to get-orig-source which eventually become pretty much what it is
now. It'll be good when eventually most of the get-orig-source functionality
will be possible to do using uscan but in my get-orig-source target I already
pass 9 arguments to uscan and that's why get-orig-source was introduced in
first place -- to properly run uscan with all those arguments that I can't
quite memorise...
> Thanks again
You're welcome. :)
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Regards,
Dmitry Smirnov
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