[Openstack-devel] New version of python-fixtures for debian experimental

[Robert Collins]

+1 on what you've done and what you propose. If you want to set
Maintainer to DPMT and commit it to the DPMT svn repository at the
same time, that would be awesome.

On 15 February 2013 19:53, Thomas Goirand <thomas at goirand.fr> wrote:
> On 02/15/2013 05:04 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
>> Hi Thomas, I've been meaning to move all my Python packages to the
>> DPMT, just a lack of tuits. Please feel free to NMU anything in the
>> interim until I get around to that.
>>
>> [Thanks for the offer to sponsor, but I am a DD :)].
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> I made couples of changes in your package, despite just the new upstream
> release:
>
>   * Now using compat and debhelper 9.
>   * Using parsable format 1.0 for debian/copyright.
>   * Now using source format 3.0 (quilt).
>   * Build-depends on python (>= 2.6.6-3~), remove python-dev
>     build-depends.
>   * Standard-Version is now 3.9.4 (no change but the above).
>   * Added a debian/watch file.
>   * Disabled test suite as it fails.
>   * Added a homepage field.
>   * Removes /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk since it's now
>     deprecated.
>
> I believe you will agree with these changes which were necessary (the
> package is now lintian clean, it wasn't before), so I have upload it. I
> hope you wont mind. If you do, let me know, I can revert some of the
> changes in a -2 Debian release, if you think it's necessary
>
> Now, your package is still using CDBS. Since that would be a major
> change, I have to ask you: would you be ok to switch to debhelper dh
> short style and dh_python2? This seems to be what the python module team
> uses, and it's often preferred over CDBS (better documentation, more
> people using it). Please let me know your thoughts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas



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