[Debian-olpc-devel] updating package
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Fri Oct 15 13:26:27 UTC 2010
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:09:11AM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
>On 10/15/2010 07:48 AM, Manusheel Gupta wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Dipankar Patro <dipankar at seeta.in> wrote:
>>> And have the following doubt:
>>> - we cannot use git-import-orig in this case for updating I guess, right?
>>> - Shall we follow with the command ' uupdate -v newversion ../foo-
>>> newversion.tar.gz ' as mentioned in the link?
>
>No. git-import-orig is correct when you are packaging with git.
>"uupdate" would be used if we were packaging outside a version control
>system.
On a more general note, the http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ guide
followed covers only *some* Debian packaging styles.
In particular, it seems (from a quick glance) to not cover the tools
used most commonly (if not exclusively) here at the Debian OLPC team:
* CDBS
* git-buildpackage
Kind regards,
- Jonas
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