Seeking for sponsorship for linuxptp (PTP/IEEE1588 implementation)

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Tino Mettler
<tino.mettler at alcnetworx.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 22:46 +0100, "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)"
> wrote:
>
>> me too (and I am personally interested in ptp packages).
>> however, i would welcome it if the package would be team-maintained
>> under the pkg-multimedia umbrella.
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the offer.
>
>>
>> anyhow, i'm currently doing a quick review of the package.
>> some notes:
>>
>> - i very much prefer to build the package using git(-buildpackage) to
>> just buliding packages from mentors.d.n, as this is my proven toolchain
>> to build in a chroot environment.
>> i am not a gitpkg user though, so i need some help, which you already
>> provide in the debian/README.source (thanks for that!).
>> unfortunately the information therein is not sufficient (and the
>> pristine-tar line mentioning "syncevolution" is rather suspicious).
>> i cloned http://tikei.de/git/linuxptp-debian.git and setup the
>> quilt-patches hook; but running `gitpkg master` gives me the following
>> error:
>>
>> ~~~
>> $ gitpkg master
>> git archive exporting master
>> preparing ../deb-packages/linuxptp/linuxptp-1.5
>> dpkg-source -b linuxptp-1.5
>> dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)'
>> dpkg-source: info: building linuxptp using existing
>> ./linuxptp_1.5.orig.tar.gz
>> patching file makefile
>> Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Skipping patch.
>> 1 out of 1 hunk ignored
>> dpkg-source: info: the patch has fuzz which is not allowed, or is malformed
>> dpkg-source: info: if patch
>> '0001-Adjust-installation-directory-for-Debian.patch' is correctly
>> applied by quilt, use 'quilt refresh' to update it
>> dpkg-source: error: LC_ALL=C patch -t -F 0 -N -p1 -u -V never -g0 -E -b
>> -B .pc/0001-Adjust-installation-directory-for-Debian.patch/
>> --reject-file=- <
>> linuxptp-1.5.orig.zcTD_d/debian/patches/0001-Adjust-installation-directory-for-Debian.patch
>> gave error exit status 1
>
> There is a git config command missing in the instructions, sorry for
> this:
>
> $ git config gitpkg.pre-export-hook /usr/share/gitpkg/hooks/pristine-tar-pre-export-hook
>
> I'll add this to README.source.

FWIW, I also prefer git-buildpackage. Whenever I've seen gitpkg it is
too complex to use, as it requires configuration by the user.

On the other hand, git-buildpackage is as simple as: gbp clone/pull ;
gbp buildpackage.

We have agreed in the team to use git-buildpackage when possible[1] to
standarize on a single tool. I hope you reconsider using gbp instead.


[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging
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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler