[Pkg-alsa-devel] SVN ready

Steve Kowalik stevenk@debian.org
Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:14:22 +1000


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:34:20 +0200, Jordi Mallach uttered
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> OH THANK GOD FOR LETTING US CONVINCE STEVENK.
> 
Muahahahahaha

> Ok, after this nice introduction, let's go for the cool stuff. :)
> 
> svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-alsa
> will checkout everything (branches, tags, trunk).
> 
Works nicely.

> I went for a {branches,tags,trunk}/alsa-{oss,utils,driver,lib} layout as
> they are subpackages of the same project. We're still on time to move to
> alsa-{foo,bar}/{t,t,b}, but I think this is better.
> 
I'm easy in terms of the layout.

> Probably you guys know most of the stuff already.
> I added the mergeWithUpstream property to our deiban/ dirs.
> svn-buildpackage will now look for the tarball in ../tarballs/ and will
> build the package in ../build-area.
> 
> I have updated the patch that was failing in driver (configure) and
> built alsa-driver. It works... it was so easy. I'm glad we've changed
> already.
> 
I can verify this to be the case.

> If you guys can svn-buildpackage -rfakeroot on top of trunk/alsa-driver
> and tell me the generated debs are good, I'll upload the changes file I
> have signed and ready.
> 
I wanted to be the one to upload -driver, but I guess you can be the
one to blame. ;-)

Nice work. Now you're making me think we should have ditched CVS
earlier, but oh well.

Cheers,
-- 
					Steve
"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user'
 as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead