[pkg-fso-maint] xf86-video-glamo and autoreconf stuff

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 15.05.2009, 14:28 +0200 schrieb Luca Capello:
> xf86-video-glamo has not been "officially" released yet: upstream does
> not provide any tarball and as usual the Git repository does not contain
> the autoreconf stuff (configure and so on).
> 
> For the first upload to pkg-fso, I opted for debian/rules calling
> `autoreconf -i` at build targed.  This obviously is far from optimal,
> because AFAIK it means that if you build the package with two different
> autoconf versions you can end with different optimisation/configuration.
> 
> Is there any official Debian documentation about such a situation?  I
> mean, what is the maintainer expected to do?  Generate a fake
> .orig.tar.gz with every autoreconf stuff?

what I have been doing for various pkg-fso packages with the same
upstream condition is to run "autoreconf && ./configure && make dist" to
create a tarball. There even is a variable to you can pass to make dist
that specifies which version number you want to see in the directory
that ends in the tarball. This way, you get a nice, clean package where
you can continue with the “normal” git-import-orig way of packaging.

The resulting upstream-dist branch (following the convention that we
have set so far: upstream for the original git master, debian for the
debian master, upstream-dist for the imported tarballs) is now git-wise
unrelated to the upstream branch. This is a minor nuisance which I at
first tried to avoid by strange git tricks (git merge -s ours), but have
given up.

I don’t have proper documentation though besides what has gone over this
list...

Greetings,
Joachim 

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