[SCM] FFmpeg packaging branch, master, updated. debian/0.5+svn20090420-2-1-g5e546ce

Andres Mejia mcitadel at gmail.com
Mon May 11 07:02:14 UTC 2009


On Sunday 10 May 2009 14:26:28 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> writes:
> > El , ceros-guest at users.alioth.debian.org escribió:
> >> The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
> >> commit 5e546ce45f22e206c2dce0cb8bf27fe6cd31a376
> >> Author: Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>
> >> Date:   Sun May 10 03:49:30 2009 -0400
> >>
> >>       * Add myself to Uploaders list.
> >>       * Add DM-Upload-Allowed: yes field.
> >>       * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.1.
> >>       * Add libopenjpeg support. (Closes: #527811)
> >>       * Add bzlib support. (Closes: #527844)
> >>       * Explicitely enable zlib and bzlib support in configure script.
> >>       * Build static libraries for ffmpeg-debian and ffmpeg packages.
> >>         (Closes: #527761)
> >>       * Modify control.ffmpeg-debian to match Depends of *-dev packages
> >> in control file introduced in previous pacakage version.
> >>       * Some changes recommended by lintian.
> >>         + Add watch file.
> >>         + Fix ordering of debhelper calls.
> >>         + Remove redundant Section fields in control file for binary
> >> packages. + Add comment in patch, also refreshed it.
> >>         + Fix lintian error shlib-with-non-pic-code.
> >>         + Don't install LICENSE. The licensing information should be,
> >> and is, covered in debian/copyright.
> >>         + Fix 'breaks-without-version libavcodec51' warning.
> >>       * Register ffmpeg documentation with doc-base.
> >>       * Install documentation with dh_installdocs.
> >
> > Please do separate commits for different changesets. Also, I'm not sure
> > but I think changes should not usually update the changelog, because it
> > makes it easier to merge and cherry pick changes (Should we put this in
> > the wiki?).
>
> I think the most important reason for making focused commits is that
> that is the only way that allows us easily to revert changes. Grouping
> commits means that we either have to manually fiddle to bake out
> changes, or revert the whole thing.
>
> Andres, please revert the whole commit and recommit them in single
> steps. Don't bother about touching debian/changelog, it is much easier
> to generate them close before an uploading using git-dch(1).

Oh. Didn't see this email until after my last commit. The thing was I wanted to 
fix all lintian issues and general packaging updates before I made a commit. I'll 
do focused commits from now on, and thanks for letting me know about git-dch. 
Didn't know there was such a tool.

-- 
Regards,
Andres
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