Bug#732360: Please privide pristine-tar branch

[Ghislain Vaillant]

Hi Andreas,

On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 21:04 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Ghislain,
> 
> I would like to sponsor ismrmrd but there are some issues with the
> packaging.
> 
Thank you for stepping-up again to mentor one of my packages.

>   1. The pristine-tar branch is missing.  Please use
>          git import-orig --pristine-tar <origtarball>
>      as it is explained in the team policy
> 
The source distribution is a zip file that certainly needs a repack to a
suitable tarball format. I have been doing it manually so far. 

>   2. Please set the Science team mailing list as Maintainer and
>      yourself as Uploader (as explained in team policy)
> 
Done

>   3. If you have good reasons to stick to debhelper compat
>      level 8 please mention them in debian/README.source
>      otherwise please use level 9
Reason is that I tested the package on Ubuntu LTS before (personal PPA),
where setting debhelper to v9 was not possible.


The ultimate goal is to have the package accepted in Debian, but
upstream would also like to support the current Ubuntu LTS. I wanted to
avoid duplicating my packaging effort, hence some of the choices above.
If you can suggest better pieces of advice regarding this issue, I'd be
keen on hearing from them. 

> 
> Kind regards
> 
>         Andreas.
> 

Cheers,

Ghislain