[Debian-pan-maintainers] packaging procedure

Tue Jun 30 10:34:53 BST 2015

Hello Sergi,

> I think it has work and now I should contact the developer for unit test issue. Well, with the last indications I've installed some dependencies I haven't installed and git-buildpackage almost works. And I say almost because when it enters test process, it
 remains there with no more interaction. Last lines are:

> Running tests...

> /usr/bin/ctest --force-new-ctest-process -j1

> Test project /home/serguei/src/debian/ufo-core/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu

>     Start 1: test-suite

If you want to skip the unit test for now to check that the rest of the pacakging is ok just add

override_dh_auto_test:

in the debian/rules file.

Indeed at the end it would be a must to have the unit test during the build and also to add the autopkgtest :)

> And it doesn't consume an appreciable cpu resource, memory neither anything. *dsc, *debian.tar.gz and *amd64.build files are well created in the parent directory.

> I think I'm getting closer and I start understanding how the packaging process is.

Great to hear that it is not that difficult ;)

> Thanks, I hope soon I'll do the commit to have the auto made package.

Cheers

Fred

/Sergi.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:16 AM, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
<frederic-emmanuel.picca at synchrotron-soleil.fr> wrote:

Hello Sergi,

> I surrender... I've been playing this weeks trying to understand how can I include in the git repository with the debian sources of the ufo-core the tag 0.8.0 from the author's repository and I can find how. I've tried > every thing I thought useful, and
 almost everything I read, starting from the traces from Frédéric followed by many howto searches.

Freeze ;)

> I can summarize it in to main paths that I thing have possibilities.

> a) Using both repos to merge them.

> $ git clone 
https://github.com/ufo-kit/ufo-core && cd ufo-core

> $ git remote add debian git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-pan/packages/ufo-core.git<http://git.debian.org/git/debian-pan/packages/ufo-core.git>
 && git fetch debian

> $ git checkout -b v0.8.0

> What blocks me in this option has been how to merge the tag with a new upstream branch.

> b) Using the watch file. It's the option that looks more promising because it looks made to do that:

> $ git clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-pan/packages/ufo-core.git<http://git.debian.org/git/debian-pan/packages/ufo-core.git>
 && cd ufo-core

> $ uscan --download --verbose

> Then I have a file ../ufo-core-0.8.0.tar.gz together with a symlink with the *orig* label. But after that I cannot find how to have an upstream branch with the newer code.

Here I will describe how I add a new upstream release to the debian repository.

- First I do not put the real git upstream in the debian package repository. (If I rememmber correctly there was some discussion about how to  put the upstream repository into the debian repo but with no official consensus, the other way arround is another
 quetion...)

- for now the simplest things to do is to clone only the debian repository (your second solution).

- use uscan to download the lastest version. (already done by you nice :). A working watch file is really import for the debian infrastructure.

  it facilitate a lot the upstream integration :)

- and then integrate this new version in the debian repository.

in order to integrate the new upstream, you need at least two branches (master + upstream)

so

git checkout -t origin/upstream

git checkout master

git-import-orig --pristine-tar ../ufo-core-0.8.0.targ.gz

then you should have to answer the question of the version

just put 0.8.0

once done you should have a new upstream/0.8.0 tag

you should be on the master branch

then you can start to fix the debian files.

build your package with

git-buildpackage

if you do not want to commit you change until it is ok

git-buildpckage --git-ignore-new

Just tell me if it works for you.

Cheers

Fred