[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Misc issues with gnustep-base

[Eric Heintzmann]

Le 29/09/2017 à 00:36, Yavor Doganov a écrit :
> 1. Removal of gnustep-base-examples
>
> An old idea of mine, I don't remember if I have discussed it with
> someone from the team.
>
> This package is very low popcon (54), the examples are really small
> and I don't think they justify a separate package.  I suggest to move
> them to gnustep-base-doc.  I think this is what most developers would
> expect.  A newbie would install the -doc package, study the
> documentation + examples and experiment.  (Actually that's wrong, most
> newbies will read it online at gnustep.org, but that's a different
> topic.  Ooops, that's wrong too, most newbies will not read the
> documentation at all, they will ask on a forum/ML/IRC how to solve the
> problems they encounter.)
>
> Any objections?
Where will you install these examples ?
(|Policy suggests /usr/share/doc/package/examples )
|
> 2. debian/control -- It is not possible to regenerate it with a simple
> command now as it is part of the override_dh_auto_configure recipe.
Yes it is an issue of -base and -gui and -back.
Since the debian new maintainer guide says "Please limit explicit
targets to override_dh_* targets and completely independent ones, if
possible. ", I failed to find an elegant solution.
But if you have one, it is welcome

> 3. Where is the Git history?  I am pretty sure that I have imported
> the package from the old Arch repository and the history was intact.
> In any case it should be available from the time we switched to Git,
> which was quite some time ago.  Is the repository reset from scratch
> and reimported from the Debian packages?

Yes it was, using

  *gbp import-dscs* --debsnap gnustep-base

The goals was to support the use of pristine-tar, and to quickly import
a long history of NMUs