[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Xiphos Packaging

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 13 November 2010 02:38, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Maybe it isn't quite that simple?  I just tried, and it looks like Dima
> created a patch in the packaging that adds a file waffles/nothreads.py
> among other things, realting to building on hppa... and that file
> already exists in xiphos 3.1.4, so the 3.1.3.3 packaging does not apply
> to the 3.1.4 source tree as is.
>
> Did Xiphos accept Dima's change into the "upstream" source tree,
> somewhere between 3.1.3 and 3.1.4?
>

The patch got accepted (in modified form) into upstream waf. I can't
remember if I updated waf before 3.1.4 release which has the patch
there.

nothreads patch should be dropped as distribution patch for sure, though.

> I'll try simply removing that patch from the packaging, and seeing what
> happens, but I'd be more confident if we understood this slightly better
> before uploading to Debian :)
>
> So far, to get a Xiphos 3.1.4 package that builds lintian-clean, my
> debian/changelog says:
>
>
> xiphos (3.1.4-1) experimental; urgency=low
>
>  * New upstream release 3.1.4
>  * Removed debian/patch/* since the one patch was included upstream.
>  * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.1 (no changes required).
>  * debian/README.Debian: Corrected spelling and reworded for clarity.
>  * debian/control: Add Jonathan Marsden back into Uploaders.
>
> I'll test this a little here, before making it public :)
>

Push it to lp =) so that i can at least view it online ;-)


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