[Debian-olpc-devel] Problem while updating sugar-speak-activity

[Manusheel Gupta]

Luke,

Thanks for the pointer.

Looking forward to hearing from Siegfried-Angel.

Regards,

Manu

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:

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> This question is perhaps better suited to the Debian OLPC list, please
> drop SugarTeam from CC in future mails.
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> On Jul 25, 2010, at 13:58, Kandarp Kaushik <kandarp at seeta.in> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I was trying to package sugar-speak-activity and faced the following
> issues:
> >
> >
> > 1) $ gbp-clone git+ssh://
> git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/sugar-speak-activity.git
> >          Initialized empty Git repository in
> > /home/kandarp/git_local_repo/speak/sugar-speak-activity/.git/
> >          Enter passphrase for key '/home/kandarp/.ssh/id_rsa':
> >          remote: Counting objects: 141, done.
> >          remote: Compressing objects: 100% (88/88), done.
> >          remote: Total 141 (delta 51), reused 134 (delta 48)
> >          Receiving objects: 100% (141/141), 1.99 MiB | 67 KiB/s, done.
> >          Resolving deltas: 100% (51/51), done.
> >
> > On cloning the repo., upstream branch wasn't present and only the
> > master branch was there.
> > Created branch upstream manually.
> >
> >
> > 2) $ git merge v16 failed, had to reset the upstream branch.
> >
> >
> > 3) debian folder had the following files:
> > changelog  compat  control  copyright  rules  watch
> >
> > tried to regenerate debian/control after creating debian/control.inusing:
> > $ DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 fakeroot debian/rules clean
> >
> > OUTPUT:
> >
> >      dh clean
> >         dh_testdir
> >         debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
> >      make[1]: Entering directory
> > `/home/kandarp/git_local_repo/speak/sugar-speak-activity'
> >      rm -rf
> /home/kandarp/git_local_repo/speak/sugar-speak-activity/locale
> > /home/kandarp/git_local_repo/speak/sugar-speak-activity/MANIFEST
> >      [ ! -d /home/kandarp/git_local_repo/speak/sugar-speak-activity/.git
> > ] || git checkout locale
> >      dh_clean
> >      make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/kandarp/git_local_repo/speak/sugar-speak-activity'
> >         dh_clean
> >
> >
> > *debian/control was not regenerated.
> >
> > debian/rules file had:
> >
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> > #!/usr/bin/make -f
> >
> > USRDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/sugar-speak-activity/usr/
> >
> > %:
> >    dh $@
> >
> > override_dh_auto_install:
> >    $(PYTHON) $(CURDIR)/setup.py install --prefix=$(USRDIR)
> >    rm -f $(USRDIR)/share/sugar/activities/Speak.activity/COPYING \
> >        $(USRDIR)/share/sugar/activities/Speak.activity/port/COPYING \
> >        $(USRDIR)/share/sugar/activities/Speak.activity/bot/*/setup.py
> >
> > override_dh_auto_clean:
> >    rm -rf $(CURDIR)/locale $(CURDIR)/MANIFEST
> >    [ ! -d $(CURDIR)/.git ] || git checkout locale
> >    dh_clean
> >
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> >
> >
> > Please let me know what steps are necessary to complete the packaging
> > of sugar-speak-activity.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kandarp.
> >
> > PS: I believe some changes in debian/rules are required, but am not
> > knowledgeable enough to do that.
>
> Speak was originally packaged by Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals, aka
> RainCT. I asked him earlier about other activities he had packaged, and
> he gave the go-ahead to take then over. I'm CCing him now to see whether
> that is also okay for Speak.
>
> I'd advise repackaging Speak importing with pristine-tar etc and
> starting work from there.
>
> Most of the issues you encountered (non-git related, that is) are
> because Speak uses debhelper directly. I recommend adapting it to use CDBS.
>
> - --
> Luke Faraone
> http://luke.faraone.cc
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