[Debian-med-packaging] FW4SPL package

Wed Nov 2 12:12:26 UTC 2016

Hi Flavien,

On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 12:26:46PM +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> This is an answer to a private email discussion I started with Andreas
> Tille <andreas at an3as.eu>. I'm sorry I started this discussion outside of
> the debian mailing-list but I was not well aware of the right way to
> contact you. Thank you btw Andreas for your kind answer. :)

You are welcome.

> So if you agree to welcome us again

Phrases like this do not really fit into Debian philosophy:  Debian is a
Do-ocracy so the doer decides what gets done.  If you do some work on
freely licensed code that is technically sensible and fits into Debian
policy there is no real point to ask for agreement of people.  Well, as
long as you are not a Debian Developer you need to convince some DD to
upload your code but I confirmed this before.  And yes, I think you are
welcome anyway in the Debian Med team. :-)

> despite our past mistakes and lack of support,

I think this was sufficiently explained and can be simply fixed by a
bug free fw4spl package.

> I would be pleased to be the new maintainer of the debian
> package. Of course I can also take care of the packaging of the camp
> library which is a dependency of FW4SPL.

It's good to know that you'll also care for camp.

> However I must admit I start from scratch in the Debian world. I already
> registered alioth.debian.org this morning. I started to read all the
> required documentation and I will come back to you when needed, since
> you gently offered your help.

Since the actual packaging is done and probably "only" some upgrade of
the upstream code is needed this is perhaps easier than expected.  I
think (hope) the Debian Med policy document[1] will be your friend to
learn about the workflow inside the Debian Med team and if needed
gives some links to basic packaging information.

If you follow the information about alioth login you should be able
to do `ssh git.debian.org` (when using ssh-agent without typing your
password over and over).  If this is the case you can do

   ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/camp.git
   ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/fw4spl.git

In both cases you should do something like

   dch -i

add changelog entries

   * Remove Corentin Desfarges as Uploader
   * Add myself as Uploader

and do what you wrote there inside the debian/control file.  You should
commit the change with Git.  Looking at debian/control I'd recommend to
do

   cme fix dpkg-control

(see policy[1] what packages need to be installed to make this working)
which should fixe Vcs-fields and bumps Standards-Version (I guess this
version bump is safe - but as a beginner please check the web about the
meaning of Debian policy versioning which is represented in this field).
Please also mention this change in debian/changelog (either by manually
editing debian/changelog or by using `dch` - see man dch).

As far as I can see there is no new version of camp available.  Please
try

   gbp buildpackage

to see whether your build environment is OK and you can reproduce the
build.  If you are happy with the result please tell so here - if you
have problems just let us know as well.

As far as I can see there is fw4spl version 0.10.2.2 available upstream.
You can download it via

   uscan --verbose

Once this is downloaded you can follow the Debian Med policy document[1]
and import the resulting source tarball via

   gbp import-orig --pristine-tar ../fw4spl_0.10.2.2.orig.tar.gz

Please adjust the version number in debian/changelog and add an entry

   * New upstream version

Now check whether it builds nicely via

   gbp buildpackage

and tell us here about results or problems.

> All the critical should be fixed now but they are for sure not yet
> documented in the debian changelog.

It would be good to address the bugs inside the debian/changelog and
close the according bugs.

> I'll do this as soon as I learn how
> I do this.

Hope the hints above are sufficient to get you started.

> Do you have any deadline for the next Debian release ?

Debian will freeze for the next stable release at 5th January 2017.
Since fw4spl needs to pass the new queue again and we need to assume
that ftpmaster takes about 4 weeks to process new packages you should be
ready to 1.12.2016 with the packaging.

Thanks for picking up fw4spl packaging

     Andreas.

[1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html

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