[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Bug#761336: Bug#761336: src:xiphos: New upstream release available

Andrew Nielsen andrew5859 at zoominternet.net
Sun Sep 21 02:59:43 BST 2014


If you want, go to this page and see that what you're trying to attempt, 
has already been done and works great....please check it out:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomesword/files/Xiphos/3.2.2/Ubuntu-14.04/

On 09/20/2014 09:41 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On 13 September 2014 00:26, Neil Mayhew <neil_mayhew at sil.org> wrote:
>> Package: src:xiphos
>> Version: 3.1.5+dfsg
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> The new upstream release (3.2.2) fixes the current FTBFS bug (#747784).
>>
>> I made a trial version of a package based on the new release, and I'm
>> attaching what I did as a patch against the 3.1.5+dfsg-1 debian directory.
>> Hopefully this will give someone else a headstart on making an actual
>> package.
>>
>> I also had to create a modified "dfsg" tarball using the following procedure:
>>
>>   * Unpack upstream tarball
>>   * Rename directory by adding +dfsg suffix
>>   * Remove debian directory
>>   * Unpack waf using commands from https://wiki.debian.org/UnpackWaf
>>   * Repack tarball with appropriate .orig.tar.xz name
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
> The staged 3.2.1 xiphos packaging in git repository managed with dgit
> already had all the repacking rules as get-orig-source target in
> debian/rules.
> I've now bumped this to 3.2.2 and uploaded.
> 3.2.1 was failing to build from source with gcc4.9, but that is now
> resolved in 3.2.2. (Didn't track down exact problem/bug)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dimitri.
>
>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>>    APT prefers testing
>>    APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>> Foreign Architectures: i386
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>
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