first package: pd-wiimote

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Fri Sep 3 16:29:25 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:43:32PM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 17:22 +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:13 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> > On 02/09/10 05:10, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> >
>> > >>> So another approach would be to repackage the tarball to just 
>> > >>> include the COPYING file. While we are at it, we could also use 
>> > >>> the new Makefile and get rid of the other patch.
>> > >>
>> > >> Instead of using a quilt patch should I simply replace the 
>> > >> Makefile with the new one and check that into the master branch?
>> > >
>> > > no, that would be pretty confusing. I'd rather do these changes 
>> > > in the 'upstream' branch branch, and have a 
>> > > wiimote-0.3.1.dfsg1.orig.tar.gz created or something.
>> > >
>> >
>> > The correct approach is to have upstream fix this, not us. In the 
>> > current workflow, touching the upstream branch for stuff other than 
>> > merging upstream versions is wrong IMO.
>> >
>>
>> Ok. It's in progress. I'll report back, when done.
>
>First off, many thanks to you all for your help.
>
>IOhannes helped me putting up a new upstream version 0.3.2, which has 
>now a fixed Makefile and also a license file. So I could remove the 
>quilt patch wierdness.
>
>I hope it looks OK now.

I noticed you switched to source version 3.0 from quilt to native.  I 
would suggest to keep using the quilt flavor even if not currently 
needing any patches: if at some point upstream code is changed - 
accidentally or deliberately - we want it to be treated by packaging 
routines as a patch, not a change by upstream.


>Ah, one thing: Since it wasn't put to the archive yet, I didn't add a 
>new changelog entry, but updated the existing one. Is this the correct 
>way?

Yes, that's correct.

:-)

  - Jonas

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