mplayer_1.0~rc4.dfsg1-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Tue Feb 8 15:41:10 UTC 2011
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:12:05PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Di, Feb 08, 2011 at 14:13:37 (CET), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 01:41:15PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>>>Am 07.02.2011 19:15, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>>>> Oh, I'm sorry, it seems I've drifted into too much upstream work so
>>>> that I overlook such important packaging changes. Help of course as
>>>> always welcome.
>>>
>>>Never mind...
>>>
>>>> The only change from the upstream tarballs is the removal of the
>>>> libdvdcss/ directory. The README.upstream-upgrade and README.source
>>>> are out of date and need to be update.
>>>
>>> I have updated (and simplified) the documentation with regard to our
>>> modifications to the upstream tarball. However, both
>>> README.upstream-upgrade and get-orig-source.sh have ~rc3 hardcoded
>>> and I am not quite sure (i.e. not involved enough and not going to
>>> change this) what is the correct fix for this.
>>
>> Would it be ok for you guys to "infect" the mplayer packaging with
>> CDBS?
>
>TBH, I'd prefer if you didn't, at least not at this point.
>
>I have a copy of the packaging in upstream's SVN for generating daily
>builds: https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily
>
>This requires some slight adaptations to the packaging which I'm not
>comfortable maintaining in CDBS.
Fair enough.
>> This particular issue wouldn't directly be solved by it, since CDBS
>> do not yet support generating tarballs from upstream VCS. But it
>> would make it more obvious which parts are unusual - and even if not
>> using the get-orig.source target the helper variables around it might
>> still help streamline the custom get-orig-source.sh script.
>>
>> Also, in the longer term, Jérémy Lal (cc'ed this mail) is working on
>> extending upstream-tarball.mk to generate tarballs from upstream VCS.
>
>Cool, great to hear.
>
>Any chance to get this work integrated in the devscripts package?
Might happen. More work, though, as there is no tool in devscripts
equal to the CDBS upstream-tarball.mk snippet. Yes, uscan+uupdate comes
close but is more aimed at _upgrading_ than on fetching current source.
- Jonas
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