[DebianGIS-dev] [DebianGIS] Specific packages for SAR and earth observation

[Antonio Valentino]

Hi David,

Il giorno Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:15:28 +0100
David Paleino <dapal at debian.org> ha scritto:

> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:03:28 +0100, Antonio Valentino wrote:
> 
> > In the next days I plan to create projects in the debian git repo
> > for the following SW packages (each has an open ITP)
> > 
> > polsarpro: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606876

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> > Please also note that, for the polsarpro package (only), I will put
> > under VCS only the debian directory since polsarpro orig archive is
> > quite large (227M) and includes about 166M of PDF files, binaries
> > (172M unpacked) and also the ActiveTcl8.4.13.0.261555-win32.exe SW
> > distribution (21M).
> > 
> > Unfortunately a pure source code archive is not available.
> 
> You should strip all the binaries and PDFs from the tarball. This is
> a common issue in Debian (think of java packages where most of
> upstreams embed *.jar files).
> 
> To do this, please create a "get-orig-source" target in debian/rules,
> which should do all the needed steps to obtain a source-only (and
> *free*!) tarball. Also, your package should have a "special" version.
> Let's say it is version 1.0-1, it should become 1.0+ds-1 (+ds means
> "debian source" -- and 1.0+ds-2, 1.0+ds-3, and so on). You should
> take care of mangling the source version in debian/watch as well
> (read about dversionmangle).
> 
> Once you've stripped all of those things, I believe the tarball will
> have a reasonable size to be committed ;)
> 
> Also, since you're going to use git, please read about pristine-tar
> to store orig tarballs inside the repository itself.
> 
> I'm available if you need help about the repackaging :)

I have just pushed 

git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/polsarpro
git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/polsarpro-doc 

The first includes stripped sources (version 4.1.5+ds with pristine-tar
branch) as requested.

The latter only includes the debian directory (non-free doc package). 
In this case:
* the get-orig-source produces a stripped orig archive only including
  PDFs
* no "+ds" suffix have been used

It would be nice if you would like to check if repackaging is OK.

Best regards

-- 
Antonio Valentino
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