Help offered with xwax package

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2016-08-10 11:40 GMT+02:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
> 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?

Or maybe the best ... asking upstream if he could name his releases
with ~ as - breaking our automatic system for watching new releases.

mira