[Olsr-dev] 'debian/' folder should not be included in release tarballs!

[Teco Boot]

Op 22 mei 2013, om 22:19 heeft Hans-Christoph Steiner <(spam-protected)> het volgende geschreven:

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> On 05/22/2013 04:15 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>> On 05/22/2013 05:17 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>>> On 05/22/2013 11:11 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
>>>> On Die, 2013-05-21 at 18:49 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> [....]
>>>>> Any honestly, the best solution would be to just remove the debian/ folder
>>>>> entirely.  It hasn't been updated since 2010.
>>>> 
>>>> IIRC we added it on request of the Debian packager to help/ease/... the
>>>> package maintenance and it was - of course - to be maintained by the
>>>> Debian packager
>>> 
>>> And it helps people who want to build a current debian file directly from our
>>> repository.
>> 
>> It doesn't really, because its out of date.  It really serves to confuse
>> people who want to build the Debian package, but it looks like the right
>> thing, but then won't work right.  We have made a lot of improvements on the
>> Debian packaging since 2010, and olsrd has changed as well.
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> I forgot to add: remove the debian/ folder and we add
> README-Building-Debian-Package with this contents:
> 
> To build the debian package, do this:
> 
> 1. go to this page: http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/olsrd
> 2. scroll down and download "olsrd_0.6.x.debian.tar.bz2
> 3. extract tarball into your olsrd source folder (e.g. olsrd/)
> 4. run "dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us"
> 
> Then everyone wins!

Can I build latest greatest or my special version with this? Differences with debian .deb? If I have more homework, add it in this readme file?

Teco

> 
> .hc
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> 
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>>>> (as I'm more in the RedHat/Fedora packager world and put
>>>> an olsrd.spec file for my own convenience in so that `rpm -ta
>>>> olsrd-*.tar.gz` plain simply worked).
>>>> I didn't and don't know enough on Debian package maintenance
>>>> "procedures"/best practices to decide if these directories (and files)
>>>> should be upstream or not.
>>>> But if that is upstream, it should (read: must;-) come from the official
>>>> downstream maintainer (if only that he may avoid to run his own repo -
>>>> that may not be a inconvenience with `git` or `hg` but with `cvs` or
>>>> `svn` it definitely is).
>>> 
>>> I just looked through our tarballs, the /debian directory has been in the
>>> tarballs for some time, did something changed on the debian side that makes it
>>> a problem now?
>>> 
>>> Henning Rogge
>> 
>> I don't remember, but I do know that if the debian/ folder was not included in
>> the release tarballs, 0.6.5.4 would already be in Debian as of today.
>> 
>> .hc
>> 
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