[Debian-pan-maintainers] How to build packages for Ubuntu

[PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel]

Hello, 

here I put the melded commit of your modifications (compare to the debian master branch)

---
 configure.ac     |  2 +-
 debian/changelog | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 debian/control   |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a01ea07..95586af 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(zmq, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-zmq],[prefix to ZMQ installation]) ,\
 
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:${ZMQ_PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig
 
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBZMQ], [libzmq >= 4.0.5],[],AC_MSG_ERROR(Missing ZMQ library - Use --with-zmq configure option or add directory containing libzmq.pc to PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable))
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBZMQ], [libzmq >= 4.0.4],[],AC_MSG_ERROR(Missing ZMQ library - Use --with-zmq configure option or add directory containing libzmq.pc to PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable))
 ZMQ_VERSION=`eval pkg-config --modversion libzmq`
 ZMQ_ROOT=`eval pkg-config --variable=prefix libzmq`
 AC_SUBST(ZMQ_PREFIX)


Here you did a direct modification of the package without using the patch in debian/patch.

you should use gbp pq in order to create a dedicated pacth for this.

Now you relax the zmq version.

did you check with manu tauruel why he put 4.0.5 and not 4.0.4 ?

maybe there is a bug in the 4.0.4.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2721dcf..6169903 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
+tango (9.2.2+dfsg-1~exp4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Katleho Madisa ]
+  * Modified the changelog dependencies and the required version of zmq from 4.0.5 to 4.0.4
+  * Generated changelog modifications
+  * Modified changelog file
+  * Generated changelog
+  * changelog modification
+  * Modified the changelog dependencies and the required version of zmq from 4.0.5 to 4.0.4
+  * Generated changelog modifications
+  * Modified changelog file
+  * Generated changelog
+  * changelog modification
+  * dch generated changelog
+  * reverted configure.ac changes
+
+  [ kellermad ]
+
+ -- Katleho Madisa <kmadisa at ska.ac.za>  Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:09:11 +0200
+
+tango (9.2.2+dfsg-1~exp4) trusty; urgency=medium
+
+  * Modified the changelog dependencies and the required version of zmq from 4.0.5 to 4.0.4
+
+ -- Katleho Madisa <kmadisa at ska.ac.za>  Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:16:04 +0200
+
 tango (9.2.2+dfsg-1~exp4) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   * merge with 8.1.2c+dfsg-8


The changelog show be hand writen in order to remove duplicated informations and give something usefull for our users.

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f1239ea..e18a4e5 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers at lists.alioth.
 Uploaders: Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel <picca at debian.org>
 Section: science
 Priority: extra
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20151219~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20131227~),
                dh-autoreconf,
                libcos4-dev,
                libmysqlclient-dev,
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Architecture: any
 Section: net
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends},
-         dbconfig-mysql | dbconfig-no-thanks,
+         dbconfig-common,
          libtango-tools,
          lsb-base
 Recommends: mysql-client
-- 


here you did a revert of the dbconfig-common 2.x series and also a modification of the debheleper.

!) for dbconfig-common I understand that it is not available in the oldest LTS. But you should do this only for this version.

Maybe the best solution would be to create a dedicated branche

ubuntu/<codename> instead of reverting the change for all version.


I have also one question abotu the latest LTS.

did you check if the mysql-server version is 5.6 or 5.7.

I am wondering if the current tango9 pacakge works with 5.7
I remember somme messages on the forum about this problem.


Cheers

Frederic