[Debian GNUstep maintainers] gnustep-base transition

[Eric Heintzmann]

Le 27/09/2017 à 22:16, Yavor Doganov a écrit :
> Eric Heintzmann wrote:
>> Le 27/09/2017 à 09:31, Yavor Doganov a écrit :
>>> In any case gnustep-base must pass through the NEW queue anyway.
>> and with a new soname gnustep-gui too
> At the time I wrote the message I didn't know about the -gui issue
> yet.
>
>> So let's migrate to .dgbsym
> OK, I'll make the changes in -base.  For -gui I suggest to wait and
> see how we proceed first.
>
>> Well I don't know the good practices, if there are any, for
>> debian/changelog in git repo.
> Well, I was asking what way do you prefer.  I don't insist that mine
> is correct; I guess it's inherited from GNU practice where every
> code change must include a corresponding ChangeLog entry.
>
> Some other unrelated questions:
>
> What's the reason to move some files under debian/templates?  I guess
> it was to avoid cluttering debian/ but I find this approach slightly
> confusing: it is not immediately evident that some files under debian/
> are generated so a potential NMUer may not know that debian/control is
> a generated file.  Perhaps we should put some comments or document it
> in a separate file.

Yes it  was to avoid cluttering debian dir and avoid to mix templates(to
edit) and generated files (to not edit).
And yes it is problematic for debian/control.
Comments or documents are always welcome.


>
> I don't actually understand how this new debian/copyright stuff with
> these .yml files works.  I assume that the intention is to maintain
> the copyright file (semi-)automatically, but running `cme update
> dpkg-copyright' generates a lot of differences, some of them
> meaningless.  Am I doing something wrong or I completely misunderstood
> the whole thing?
At last -gui upload, there was a soname bump, then -gui entered in the
new queue.
And ftp-master found issue in copyright file. Thus I have rewritten it.
I've used licensecheck and cme to try to simplify the task.
But it seems these tools have changed, and since -gui will reenter in
the new queue, I will have to recheck the copyright file.