Bug#332643: java-package doesn't create a .changes file

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 07.10.05 15:14:51, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> [...]
> > just build the jdk1.5.0 update5 package with
> > 
> > java-package --changes --full-name "Andreas Pakulat" --email apaku at gmx.de  <jdk>
> > 
> > and all I get is a .deb, not .changes file.
> [...]
> Thanks for your use of Debian and java-package.  I believe the copying
> of the .changes file to the same directory as the .deb may have been
> removed without the corresponding command-line option having been
> removed. 

No, I found that I need to use fakeroot for this to work. I did the
first run as normal user without fakeroot (don't know what drove me
there ;-) and the .changes wasn't there. Then I realized that this would
mess up permissions on the package contents and with fakeroot I got a
.changes-file.

See the output if make-jpkg:

andreas at morpheus:~/compiling/java/temp>make-jpkg --changes jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin
...
Create debian package:
    dh_testdir
    dh_testroot
    dh_installchangelogs
    dh_installdocs
    dh_compress
    dh_fixperms
    dh_installdeb
    dh_shlibdeps
    dh_gencontrol
    dh_md5sums
    dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: baue Paket »sun-j2sdk1.5« in »/tmp/make-jpkg.XXXX4wD9g8/sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update05_i386.deb«.
    copy sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update05_i386.deb into directory /home/andreas/compiling/java/temp/

andreas at morpheus:~/compiling/java/temp>fakeroot make-jpkg --changes jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin
...
Create debian package:
    dh_testdir
    dh_testroot
    dh_installchangelogs
    dh_installdocs
    dh_compress
    dh_fixperms
    dh_installdeb
    dh_shlibdeps
    dh_gencontrol
    dh_md5sums
    dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: baue Paket »sun-j2sdk1.5« in »/tmp/make-jpkg.XXXXpvm81d/sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update05_i386.deb«.
    copy sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update05_i386.deb into directory /home/andreas/compiling/java/temp/
    dpkg-genchanges
dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code
    copy sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update05_i386.changes into directory /home/andreas/compiling/java/temp/


> Could you provide some information on how the .changes file
> for these types of packages would be of use to you?  This way we have
> some sort of documented justification for keeping the feature.

Sure, even though this is just kind of playground, I like to put
self-built packages into a proper repository and I use debpool to create
the Packages file (and others). Now as this basically works like the
"real" debian scripts/software on incoming, I need a .changes for each
package I'd like to include. If I had more than 1 sid-box I probably
would use that repository in my small LAN, but the other Debian box is
just a plain router...

I think there are more people out there having such a repository for
their firm/organization/whatever and maybe some of them also built their
jdk-package with make-jpkg so this option is really a benefit. I even
filed a bugreport with kernel-package which doesn't have such an
option...

Andreas

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You look tired.
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