[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Merging updates from onlyjob-guest git repo (Was: Bug#627263: bitcoin: Bitcoin GUI should be packed too)

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Dmitry Smirnov]
> Hi Petter,
> 
> Thank you for your work on bitcoin package.
> 
> Just like yourself I wanted to have bitcoin-qt package so after some struggle 
> with CDBS I forked official package and introduced GUI using debhelper only.
> Later I tried to share my improvements with Jonas but other priorities took 
> over and we've made little progress due to lack of time on both sides.
> 
> 	http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/onlyjob-guest/bitcoin.git

Thank you for sharing.

> I've seen your recent changes but in the above repository you may find few 
> nice improvements like
> 
>   * build-time GUI translations refresh.
>   * post-build tests.
>   * hardening workaround for qmake.
>   * workaround for FTBFS on GNU Hurd.
>   * misc. lintianisations.
> 
> I'm lacking skills and time necessary to translate those changes to CDBS so 
> I'll be very happy if you'll be able to borrow anything from my packaging.

I'm not too skilled with CDBS myself, but less(1) is my friend. :)

Btw, I find debian/bitcoin.1 but no bitcoin-qt.1.  How come?  And why
isn't it in the manpages directory?

I'll look more into it later, when things slow down here at home.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen