[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Xiphos Packaging

[Jonathan Marsden]

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Matthew and Robert,

On 11/11/2010 11:01 AM, Matthew Talbert wrote:

> Our current Xiphos packager (Dima) is awol (I believe temporarily), so
> I wondered if anyone else could help out getting the latest 3.1.4
> release into Debian. As far as I know, nothing regarding the actual
> packaging should need changing, just update the current package with
> the latest Xiphos source.

Maybe it isn't quite that simple?  I just tried, and it looks like Dima
created a patch in the packaging that adds a file waffles/nothreads.py
among other things, realting to building on hppa... and that file
already exists in xiphos 3.1.4, so the 3.1.3.3 packaging does not apply
to the 3.1.4 source tree as is.

Did Xiphos accept Dima's change into the "upstream" source tree,
somewhere between 3.1.3 and 3.1.4?

I'll try simply removing that patch from the packaging, and seeing what
happens, but I'd be more confident if we understood this slightly better
before uploading to Debian :)

So far, to get a Xiphos 3.1.4 package that builds lintian-clean, my
debian/changelog says:


xiphos (3.1.4-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 3.1.4
  * Removed debian/patch/* since the one patch was included upstream.
  * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.1 (no changes required).
  * debian/README.Debian: Corrected spelling and reworded for clarity.
  * debian/control: Add Jonathan Marsden back into Uploaders.

I'll test this a little here, before making it public :)

Jonathan
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