[Pkg-xmpp-devel] jabberd2 in debian

[Simon Josefsson]

Hi again.  Just pinging to see if any DD has had time to look at
jabberd2?  Should I try to find someone else who can help?  I'm going
through NM myself at the moment, so maybe I can convince my mentor to
help. :-)

/Simon

tor 2014-08-28 klockan 20:58 +0200 skrev Simon Josefsson:
> You wrote:
> 
> > On 28/08/14 15:59, Willem van den Akker wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Oops, sorry I just did some of this.  Let me know if you think it
> > >> should be done differently.  I followed the ideas here:
> > >>
> > >> http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.special.html
> > >>
> > >> Or actually I re-invented those instructions (using the
> > >> upstream+dfsg branch name instead of dfsg_clean) before finding
> > >> the documentation.
> > > 
> > > Looks good to me.
> > > 
> > >> > I previously asked around in the mentors channel. Just adding the
> > >> > lintian-message
> > >> > to the override was also sufficient. But this is a nicer way to
> > >> > go.
> > >>
> > >> Yeah, I also asked this on mentors and got the suggestion to do
> > >> lintian override but then people disagreed and thought it really
> > >> should be re-packaged.  I tried to stay out of the flamewar :-)
> > > Great idea ;)
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > You definitely need to repackage in these situations.  These policies
> > are only going to become more and more strict.
> > 
> > As you've observed, though, it is easier to track such things with
> > git-buildpackage or other scripts.  Some people just use a
> > .gitattributes file for example.
> 
> It should automatically end up being repackaged if you look in the
> jabberd2 git repo.
> 
> /Simon

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