[Pkg-xen-devel] Debian revisions and policy comments [signed]
Julien Danjou
acid at debian.org
Thu Feb 16 18:50:51 UTC 2006
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:53:22AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse [c] wrote:
> We can play with the revision of the packaging during testing. One
> idea would be to use 3.0.1-0.YYYYMMDD for experimental test packaging
> and then later change to 3.0.1-1 for the actual release. The advantage
> of this is that it gives us an indefinate amount of revisions without
> making the version string considerably longer with multiple versions.
It will be ok for the pre 3.0.1-1 version, but not after, I guess. :)
> Of
> course it would limit us to a daily build release. We also need not have
> to necessarially upload to the 'experimental' distro for testing but can
> host a mini-repository using the mini-dinstall package and even have it
> so anyone in the group could actually upload to that, whereas the
> official upload would need to be done by one of us with DD upload rights.
Right. Too early to say if we have a lot of "experimental" upload to
do, for me.
> As for the kernel patch build policy. As I've spoken with a few
> other DDs, the build should be self-contained and this not require
> anything beyond what is listed in the Build-Depends in order to build
> properly. The idea being a blackbox build that only downloads what's
> listed in the Build-Depends and builds offline. With that the use of the
> upstream build process using wget to download the kernel doesn't fit
> well.
Good point.
> Unfortunately Debian only provides one kernel source package and
> it isn't exactly the same version in stable, testing and unstable so
> this is a bit of a quandry to work out as we need to provide a patch.
We should follow Debian/unstable, anyway.
> Obviously having
> upstream just providing kernel-<version>.patch files would be better
> than having to generate the patch during build process, but that may
> take even more time to coordinate.
Maybe we should simply do this patches ourselves and repackage upstream
tarball a bit ? (not sure this is a good way to do, just an idea).
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