[Debian-med-packaging] [MoM] Re: ctk | Licensing improvements (!3)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Fernando,

Am Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 04:39:49PM +0200 schrieb Fernando Hueso González:
> 
> > I'd actually recommend the routine-update tool.  It does all this for
> > you. 😉
> 
> I am working on Debian forky, and I get:
> /apt install routine-update
> Error: Unable to locate package routine-update/
> 
> Is there an alternative ppa or so to download that program?

Unfortunately it depends from packages that are RC buggy currently.  On
tracker.d.o you see the blocker:

   https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/routine-update

So you can either pick from unstable by

   $ sudo apt -t unstable install routine-update

if you have unstable in your sources.list or you just run it from a
clone of the Git repository (that's what I'm actually doing but you also
need those dependencies which partly are in unstable).

Just a warning:  If you add unstable to your sources.list you need to set
the following:

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 501

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50

Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 5


or something similar.  Otherwise your whole system will start upgrading
from unstable which is probably not what you want.
 
> For CTK, I think I messed sth up when renaming from one version to the next
> tag, because I get now locally this error. Or maybe is just the missing fix
> in pristine-tar ?
> 
> /dpkg-source: info: building ctk using existing
> ../ctk_2026.09.02.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes, see
> /tmp/ctk_2026.09.02-1.diff.2Sg3bI
> dpkg-source: hint: make sure the version in debian/changelog matches the
> unpacked source tree/

This looks different from a pristine-tar issue.  Unfortunately I can't check
right now since I'm traveling and have very weak connection. 

Regarding qrestapi:  I've removed the main branch, granted you Maintainer
permissions (in general in Debian Med) and uploaded to new.

Kind regards
     Andreas.

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