[SCM] supercollider/master: Convert upstream's post-hoc 3.5.4 tweak into a patch

Felipe Sateler fsateler at debian.org
Fri Aug 17 03:24:35 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/8/15 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:38 AM,
>> <danstowell-guest at users.alioth.debian.org> wrote:
>>> The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
>>> commit 3c1278c9f79054a1d80ec96fbcb6e44946a771cb
>>> Author: Dan Stowell <danstowell at users.sourceforge.net>
>>> Date:   Mon Aug 13 14:14:53 2012 +0100
>>>
>>>     Convert upstream's post-hoc 3.5.4 tweak into a patch
>>
>> But the new upstream tarball has been imported! This means that there
>> are non-debian/ changes between upstream and debian branch.
>>
>> I presume you did this because of some interaction between
>> git-buildpackage and pristine-tar. Can you explain?
>
> Yes: I did it because debuild bailed out on detecting source changes
> between 3.5.4~repack and 3.5.4~repack-1 (or suchlike). I'm sorry that
> the git history is messy; upstream changed their mind about 3.5.4
> after I'd pushed the first 3.5.4 import, which meant there was nothing
> I could do to write it out of history. It may have been a bad choice
> to import the second tarball, but on the other hand that's the only
> way to make the recorded md5sum match against what's on upstream's
> servers. :/

I think the problem is that it was imported with the same name as the
older one. If it was imported as ~repack2 instead of ~repack it would
work, I think (via DEB_UPSTREAM_REPACKAGE_TAG).

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler



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