[Debian-olpc-devel] updating package

[Dipankar Patro]

Thanks Luke for the clarification.

Jonas, thanks for the note. No wonder sometimes the guide failed.

Regards,
Dipankar

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

> 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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