[pkg-fso-maint] Packaging release versions of FSO components

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Simon,

On 12-05-08 at 10:30am, Simon Busch wrote:
> as I already indicated in our private discussion I am interested in 
> helping you to package the recent release 0.10 of the various FSO 
> components.
> 
> I already started with packaging the release tarballs rather than 
> getting snapshots from git. I set up repositories for libfsosystem, 
> libfsobasics and libfsoframework to play a little bit with debian 
> packaging and try things. You can find them at [0], [1] and [2].
> 
> To create the repositories I did the following (with libfsosystem as
> example):
> 
> # mkdir libfsosystem && cd libfsosystem && git init && cd ..
> # pull-debian-source -d libfsosystem sid
> # cd libfsosystem
> # git-import-dsc ../libfsosystem_0.1.0~git20120214-1.dsc
> # cd ..
> # wget
> http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/sources/cornucopia/0.10/libfsosystem-0.10.1.tar.bz2
> # cd libfsosystem && git-import-orig ../libfsosystem-0.10.1.tar.bz2
> 
> That are the initial steps I did followed by various adjustments for
> the packaging files (changelog, build from vala sources, etc.).
> 
> Is that a suitable procedure to get the packages ready to ship their
> release version instead of a git snapshot?

What is pull-debian-source?


> [0]: https://github.com/morphis/debian-libfsosystem
> [1]: https://github.com/morphis/debian-libfsobasics
> [2]: https://github.com/morphis/debian-libfsoframework

I recommend using alioth.debian.org instead.  It also supports personal 
repositories, if what you want is some preliminary location.


 - Jonas

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