sox package adoption

IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) umlaeute at debian.org
Sun Nov 5 19:59:04 UTC 2017


On 11/05/2017 05:24 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> 2017-11-05 15:50 GMT+01:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> 
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2017-11-05 14:55 GMT+01:00 Ross Gammon <debian at the-gammons.net>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/11/17 10:29, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2017-11-04 17:36 GMT+01:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com
>>>>> <mailto:mira.mikes at gmail.com>>:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     2017-11-04 17:30 GMT+01:00 Sebastian Ramacher <
>>>> sramacher at debian.org
>>>>>     <mailto:sramacher at debian.org>>:
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Saludos,
>>>> Felipe Sateler
>>>>>         On 2017-11-04 14:25:18, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>>>>>         > Hi,
>>>>>         >
>>>>>         > I am about to adopt sox package which I think will suite
>>>> perfectly in
>>>>>         > pkg-multimedia team.
>>>>>         >
>>>>>         > At the moment I am having problem with import dscs ... this
>>>> comand failed :(
>>>>>         >
>>>>>         > $ gbp import-dscs --debsnap  --pristine-tar sox
>>>>>         >
>>>>>         > Any idea what to do about it?
>>>>>
>>>>>         What's the error?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     ​Here is output with --verbose option
>>>>>
>>>>>     ​$  gbp import-dscs --debsnap  --pristine-tar --verbose sox
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ​Any progress with this? I forgot to mention that I tried same for
>>>>> different packages with success.
>>>>>
>>>>> mira​
>>>>
>>>> You could just do it manually by taking the latest dsc from the archive:
>>>> $ dget http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/sox/sox_14.4.
>>>> 1-5.dsc
>>>>
>>>> And then doing a normal dsc import:
>>>> $ gbp import-dsc --pristine-tar sox_14.4.1-5.dsc
>>>>
>>>> That worked for me. Of course there is no history. You could also import
>>>> the version in old-old stable first, but there doesn't seem much point
>>>> in that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ​Hi Ross,
>>>
>>> I was thinking the same but wanted try all possibilities first.
>>> Anyway I filled a bug against the git-buildpackage
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880878>>>
>>>
>>> ​Is there any way to import dscs files later if I will start this way and
>>> this bug will be fixed latter?
>>>
>>>
>> It appears the problem is that the changelog has some invalid lines near
>> the end. I imported the first version manually:
>>
>> git init sox
>> cd sox
>> gbp import-dsc ../sox_11gamma-cb3-5.dsc #this fails
>> cd ..
>> dpkg-source -x sox_11gamma-cb3-5.dsc
>> cp -a sox-11gama-cb3/* sox/
>> cd sox
>> git add .
>> git commit --date="26 Feb 1998 8:50:00 +0100" \
>>  --author "Geiger Guenter <geiger at iem.mhsg.ac.at>" \
>>  -m "Import Debian changes 11gamma-cb3-5"
>>
>> I was then able to use gbp import-dscs on that repo, because the faulty
>> changelog lines are already in the repo and gbp no longer tries to read
>> them.
>>
>> I have pushed my results to https://anonscm.debian.org/
>> git/users/fsateler/sox.git if you want to use them.
>>
> 
> ​Ouh ... I just pushed to new sox repo shortly before your message :(​
> 
> ​Is there any chance to get "my_sox" repo removed and replace it with
> Felipe's repo?


remove yours on git.d.o, recreate the empty rep oon git.d.o; then clone
felipe's and push it?

if it's any trouble, i could do that.

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