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

Luca Capello luca at pca.it
Sun May 17 19:28:02 UTC 2009


Hi Joachim!

Thank you for the detailed explanation, the following are my complaints
WRT the process, not directed to you!

On Fri, 15 May 2009 18:17:25 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 15.05.2009, 14:28 +0200 schrieb Luca Capello:
>> 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.

Simple note: this means that I need all the autoreconf stuff installed
on my machine (you know, I tend to have only the strictly necessary
packages installed and I am already at 2GB of /).

The other note is that this requires me to take some extra step outside
Git, something which I would like not.

> 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.

In this case I do not see the point of following upstream Git,
especially because...

> 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.

...the two upstream branches are no more linked :-(

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

Yeah, I have followed the discussions and I hoped I would not have to
deal with that ;-)

Thank you again for the input.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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