[pkg-bacula-devel] Starting up reviewing patches

[Willem van den Akker]

Hi,

Got all running.
- downloaded the 5.0.3 package from Luca
- build it (got a more then a few lintian warnings and errors)
- cloned the git pkg-bacula workspace

Because the next steps are new for me, how can I proceed best? 
Sorry for the basic question but this is my first debian project)
- review a patch (first a simple one)
  - is the description valid (bug number) ?
  - can it be applied (quilt3) ?
  - can we rebuild the package?
  - is the package still working?
  - must it send upstream?
  - add to the change log

- then apply it to the git space
- commit (with valid log description)

The last 2 steps I cannot do. So send my results to the list?

Greetings,
Willem


On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 14:26 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: 

> Hi Willem!
> 
> On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:04:29 +0200, Willem van den Akker wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 15:47 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: 
> >> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:16:01 +0200, 
> >> > Willem van den Akker (wvdakker-guest) has requested to join your project. 
> >> >
> >> > Comments by the user:
> >> > I will like to join the Bacula project. I have build the packages
> >> > myself and hope to get the new version into unstable.
> >> 
> >> Accepted, but please see what I consider a *must* roadmap at:
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Just for the record. I am not a DD. I have experience with packaging
> > (private) and programming in
> > C/C++ /  PHP / Shell scripts. Also have read the Devel-Handbook.
> > Especially in the beginning I need some support to do things in the
> > Debian way. I hope that is not a very
> > big deal.
> 
> No problem at all, actually the biggest showstopper is that we should
> ensure that after any change everything works as before (obviously, that
> is different for upstream changes), which means compiling packages and
> checking at least their content.
> 
> Hauke did an enormous work in bringing the debian/ folder to nowadays
> Debian standards: not using his work and starting from scratch would be
> a disrespect for that work.  And I think in merging his patches someone
> could familiarize with the Debian packaging workflow.
> 
> I re-organized the tmp/bacula folder on my personal space on Debian, it
> should now be clearer what is to be done:
> 
>   <http://people.debian.org/~gismo/tmp/bacula/>
> 
> Feel free to start playing and ask if you have any question.  I would
> prefer to keep everything on the mailing list for future reference.
> 
> Best,
> Luca



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