Help offered with xwax package

Jaromír Mikeš mira.mikes at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 19:36:34 UTC 2016


2016-08-09 21:22 GMT+02:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
> 2016-08-09 11:27 GMT+02:00 Daniel James <daniel at 64studio.com>:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
>>> Welcome on board ;)
>>
>> Thanks! I have pushed some updates to
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/xwax.git/ which are ready
>> for review. I did not push a debian/1.6_beta2* tag yet.
>
> That's right debian tag should be pushed after uploading.
>
>> I have built the updated package in a clean jessie amd64 chroot using
>> pubuilder-dist, and it installed and worked fine on my jessie system.
>> Test .deb packages for amd64 and armhf are available here:
>> https://github.com/danielhjames/xwax-debs/tree/master/jessie
>>
>> The upstream git repo still includes a file called .version in the root
>> directory but it is listed in .gitignore there, so when I created the
>> archive of the new upstream version I think this file was left out:
>>
>> git archive 1.6-beta2|gzip > ../xwax-1.6~beta2-orig.tar.gz>
>> Cheers!
>
> I am usually get rig of upstream files like .gitignore .version by
> repacking source
>
>> I don't think this .version file is used by Debian in any way, so I'm
>> just mentioning it for the sake of completeness.
>
> I didn't over viewed your packaging yet ... just going to do it.

I looks like named orig source as 1.6-beta2-1 instead of 1.6~beta2-1
(-/~) which cause problem when building with --pristine-tar

mira



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