[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#750623: Bug#750623: Bug#750623: What is the hold-up of uploadin new package

[Guo Yixuan]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu_aoki_home at nifty.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 02:14:49PM -0400, Guo Yixuan wrote:
> > The only problem for using uversionmangle is:
> >
> > I: librime source:
> > debian-watch-file-should-dversionmangle-not-uversionmangle line 3
> > N:
> > N:    The version of this package contains dfsg, ds, or debian, but a
> > N:    misleading upstream version mangling occurs in the debian/watch
file.
> > N:    Since the dfsg string is not part of the upstream version and its
> > N:    addition is Debian-specific, the the debian/watch file should use
the
> > N:    dversionmangle option to remove, instead of adding in
uversionmangle,
> > N:    the dfsg before comparing version numbers.
> > N:
> > N:    Refer to http://wiki.debian.org/DEHS for details.
> > N:
> > N:    Severity: wishlist, Certainty: certain
> > N:
> > N:    Check: watch-file, Type: source
> >
> > But if we use dversionmangle instead of uversionmangle,
> > then the renamed origin tarball has name "librime_1.1.orig.tar.gz",
> >  which needs to be manually renamed to "librime_1.1+dfsg.orig.tar.gz".
> >
> > A related bug is here. [1]
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748465
>
> Did you try the solution at the bottom?

Do you mean message #42? I can't find any solutions there...
I think a lintian override is the best solution before the removal
of debian-watch-file-should-dversionmangle-not-uversionmangle.

[1 #42] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748465#42

> Also, adding yourself to uploader, go ahead.  This means you will stay
> with us and keep working on this :-)

Thank you!

Cheers,

Yixuan
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