Help offered with xwax package

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2016-08-09 21:36 GMT+02:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
> 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

How did you get orig tarball? ... I guess that you download it
manually because watch file showing 1.5 release as latest release.
Let's fix watch file first to new location of releases.
Than $ uscan --debug --force-download should give you latest release
automatically.

mira