supercollider 3.6.6 import, git-buildpackage

[Felipe Sateler]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-10-03 12:59 GMT+01:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2014-10-03 0:23 GMT+01:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 2014-10-01 4:18 GMT+01:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 10 Sep 2014 06:43, "Dan S" <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Hi all,
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > Just trying to import the latest version of supercollider. I'm having
>>>>>>>> > a problem with git-buildpackage failing to pick up the correct version
>>>>>>>> > number, and I have failed to find clues online. Here's the error:
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > [...]
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> > % head -n 1 debian/changelog
>>>>>>>> > supercollider (1:3.6.6~repack) unstable; urgency=low
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You are missing the -1 at the end of the version. Could this be the problem?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes! I had discounted that possibility since the changelog shows an
>>>>>>> old version having no "-1". But that is after all what's needed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Dan, is the package ready? We should probably try to upload sc as
>>>>>> soon as possible, if we want the new version to be part of jessie.
>>>>>> (And also to fix 760981).
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, I should have confirmed - yes, I'm happy with 3.6.6 now.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I still see some lintian output:
>>>>
>>>> E: supercollider source: source-is-missing HelpSource/prettify.js
>>>> W: supercollider source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.4 (current is 3.9.5)
>>>> W: supercollider-ide: desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key
>>>> usr/share/applications/SuperColliderIDE.desktop:8 Patterns
>>>> W: supercollider-ide: desktop-entry-invalid-category Multimedia
>>>> usr/share/applications/SuperColliderIDE.desktop
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't particularly care about the desktop entries, but there is
>>>> still one more minified js that should be dealt with :(
>>>>
>>>> I think we can just link it from libjs-prettify but that package
>>>> appears to include many more files than just prettify.js...
>>>
>>> My apologies for missing this out. It's easy to pull in libjs-prettify
>>> then dh_link. Unfortunately, though, supercollider copies the file
>>> into the user's home folder at runtime when generating help docs. This
>>> means that since dh_link generates a relative not absolute link, the
>>> copied file ends up as a broken symlink :(
>>
>> Out of curiosity, why does it copy it? Why don't we ship pre-generated docs?
>
> The help system dynamically combines packaged docs with docs for any
> extra classes the user might have installed (either as quarks or
> manually added in their classpath). It interlinks its help pages all
> together. Not very modular but it has its benefits.
>
>>> Would it be OK to manually softlink* from within debian/rules? It's
>>> not as neat as dh_link, and the uninstall needs to be manual too, but
>>> I don't see dh_link providing this option.
>>
>> Yes, I think so. Policy[1] says symlinks should be relative, so it is
>> not a must, and I think this is a reasonable deviation. I prefer an
>> absolute link to patching even more the source (which coul be
>> complicated).
>
> OK, done.

It seems you forgot to push the master branch...

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler