Bug#476703: Snapshots

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 11 juillet 2008 à 09:47 +0200, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> > There is no reason why snapshots couldn’t go in experimental. This would
> > allow to remove the package name distinction between ekiga and
> > ekiga-snapshot. This way, maintaining it in unstable would only take a
> > small part of the time needed for experimental packages, since the
> > packaging should be the same for both.
> 
> Very well!  I think I must look at the differences between the stable 
> and the snapshot of the diff.gz for ekiga, opal and ptlib/pwlib (I have 
> already done it a few months ago).  What do you propose/what is your 
> plan/what should I do for including snapshots?

First, you should get an account on alioth if you don’t already have one
(see http://alioth.debian.org/) and ask Loïc to add you to the GNOME
team.

Then, you can look at the existing packaging for the stable version, in
desktop/unstable/ekiga, and see if you have any improvements to add to
it from your snapshots’ packaging.

After which, you can branch it to desktop/experimental/ekiga and start
packaging your snapshots here. You will need a couple of changes, like a
custom get-orig-source target (to generate the tarball directly from the
upstream svn repository) and including check-dist.mk (to prevent uploads
of snapshots to unstable). After which all should be fine.

You’re welcome to discuss any of these steps on #gnome-debian at GimpNet,
there should be someone to help around most of the time.

Cheers,
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