[Pkg-ace-devel] 6.0.1

Johnny Willemsen jwillemsen at remedy.nl
Sun Feb 20 18:27:35 UTC 2011


Hi,

>>>> - When importing upstream source, there were conflicts with upstream's
>>>> "debian" directory. I don't really know whether I should fix those
>>>> conflicts, or whether I should import-orig filtering out upstream's
>>>> "debian" directory ( git import-orig --filter=debian
>>>> ../ACE+TAO+CIAO-src-6.0.1.tar.bz2 ). Stefano Zacchiroli suggested on
>>>> IRC I go with "--filter=debian" and convince upstream to not ship a
>>>> 'debian' directory :-? 
>>>
>>> I believe --filter=debian will do. Johnny wants to keep debian/ to be
>>> able to build the packages with OpenSUSE build system, but I have no
>>> idea whether this OpenSUSE build could be achieved using an alternate
>>> mechanism (e.g. a separate debian tarball).
>>
>> I really would like to have a build running on trunk of the main
>> repository that daily does a build and test packaging for debian. That
>> also should run the test suite, we now don't know if things really run
>> as expected.
> 
> Then would you find it acceptable to remove debian/ from distributed
> tarballs?

For the short term, but on the long term I would like to see all
packaging support in the main distribution itself, also maintained and
tested from there.

Johnny



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