[Pkg-crosswire-devel] package upload sponsorship requests (I found the culprit)

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 01:44:11AM -0700, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 
> > You really need to be building in a clean sid chroot.
> 
> After about 4 hours work, exploring pbuilder and the pbuilder-dist
> script and man pbuilderrc, and doing a lot of experiments... I finally
> created a sid chroot, and then saw the same result you did for bibletime!
> 
> Not too long after that, I found the cause of the issue, and fixed it.
> And the resulting packages are  clean according to lintian -iIv
> *.changes on sid.  Two out of three.
> 
That's great.

> I've still not got piuparts to work for me, but that will hopefully
> happen tomorrow, so I can send you another bibletime package to upload.
>  It's now 1:40am, so I'm not going to do any more with this until I have
> had some sleep :)
> 
The purpose of piuparts is to make sure that a package does not leave
cruft behind when it is removed/purged.  I think that bibletime is a
relatively simple package, so don't put too much effort into piuparts.
As long as you get it working eventually, it should be OK.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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