CDBS wishlists (Re: asterisk dapper.2114_to_dapper.2234 diff)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 18:02:37 +0100 Mark Purcell wrote:

> On Monday 07 August 2006 17:27, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Arrgh - my english is too bad there. What is coherence? Could you
> > please rephrase the above?
> 
> Sorry,
> 
> Currently we hardcode the upstream source location in two different
> places; debian/watch and in the get-orig-source target in
> debian/rules.
> 
> This leads to errors as one maybe updated but not the other.
> 
> We should hardcode the upstream source location in one place only and
> then all tools should use is.
> 
> For example dpatch-get-origtargz(1) will use the location in
> debian/watch if it is available.

Ah, thanks. Now I understand! :-)

Haven't looked at the code you mention, but I believe a CDBS snippet
should try to resolve the info by itself (read: by parsing
debian/watch and other machine-readable option available (although I
can't think of any alternatives at all!)), but also support being
passed an explicit location instad (which then takes priority).

There's potentially a couple more places with tinfo - not
machine-readable, but which also may need updating if source location
changes (so might make sense to invoke a warning if not matching - or at
least overlapping - each other):

debian/copyright must include the location of upstream source.

debian/control may include " Homepage: " info in long descriptions.


 - Jonas

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