Help offered with xwax package

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2016-08-10 10:55 GMT+02:00 Daniel James <daniel at 64studio.com>:
> Hi Jaromír,
>
>>> looks like named orig source as 1.6-beta2-1 instead of 1.6~beta2-1
>>> > (-/~) which cause problem when building with --pristine-tar
>
> Yes, that was probably my fault, the upstream release name is 1.6-beta2.
>
>> How did you get orig tarball? ... I guess that you download it
>> manually because watch file showing 1.5 release as latest release.
>
> I archived it from a local clone of https://github.com/xwax/xwax/ but on
> http://xwax.org/download.html version 1.5 is shown as the latest.
>
> The beta cycle is very long for xwax, so it makes sense that Debian
> packaged the beta1 release already.
>
>> Let's fix watch file first to new location of releases.
>
> I've done that in:
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/xwax.git/commit/?id=ee27698b3abfed1810e0a245d687d7f9e021bfa1
>
>> Than $ uscan --debug --force-download should give you latest release
>> automatically.
>
> uscan works, but there is a slight discrepancy because of the tilde in
> the Debian version:
>
> $ uscan --report-status
> Processing watchfile line for package xwax...
> Newest version on remote site is 1.6-beta2, local version is 1.6~beta2
> xwax: Newer version (1.6-beta2) available on remote site:
>   https://github.com/xwax/xwax/archive/1.6-beta2.zip
>   (local version is 1.6~beta2)

Yes that's the reason we have to rename 1.6- to 1.6~ because 1.6-beta2
would later considered higher version then 1.6 but 1.6~beta2 lower.
Actually we should repack ( to get rid of upstream .gitignore file and
use our .gitignore file ) and rename.

For repacking I would use get-orig-source
As example you can use rules file from eq10q package
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/eq10q.git/tree/debian/rules
But not sure how to nicely - to ~ ... :(

Maybe someone else?

mira