RFS: stumpwm (updated package)

[Desmond O. Chang]

Hi Luca,

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:19, Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:
> Hi Desmond!
>
> On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 01:18 +0800, Desmond O. Chang wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 05:13, Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:
>> > BTW, these are not complaints, I actually want to understand why you
>> > half-switched to source-format-3.0(quilt) ;-)
>>
>> Since I simply use 'pdebuild' without any options of pdebuild itself
>> and dpkg (they are too long and complex), I have to change the source
>> format to 3.0(quilt) so that dpkg-source will not put .git/* into the
>> original tarball.
>
> Strange, AFAIK dpkg-source (called by dpkg-buildpackage, called by
> pdebuild) should already exclude .git/ when called with the -i option,
> maybe were you not aware of that?
>
> Anyway, you should actually use git-buildpackage or, better, the new
> git-pbuilder script by Russ Allbery
> <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2010-08/002.html>.  A minimal
> ~/.gbp.conf to use git-buildpackage with pbuilder is:
> =====
> [DEFAULT]
> builder = pdebuild
> =====
>
> FTR, I do not use it git-pbuilder myself, since I have custom scripts
> and have not had the time to investigate it, yet.  However, it is
> always a good thing to use "upstream" tools, given that they are
> usually up-to-date WTR the Debian requirements (Policy, etc.).

Actually, 1.0 has been not recommended.  We have to use many options
or conffiles to maintain 1.0 packages.  If it is upgraded to 3.0, we
can use a single 'pdebuild' without any options.  In all the packaging
methods that I've known so far, it's the simplest.

>
>> My original purpose is that I plan to upgrade the patches in the next
>> versions so that I can release a new version as soon as possible.
>
> Ah, OK.  Anyway, I completed the migration to source-format-3.0(quilt):
>
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-common-lisp/stumpwm.git;a=commitdiff;h=9ff0c7448463d910d3a7ffa929ed832fd2eb82b6

Thanks!

> Please check if everything is OK (package building and lintian
> cleanness) and then finalize it :-)

Done!

>> I have read the social contract, DFSG and DMUP.  Can I apply now?
>
> Please read the full story at <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer>,
> unfortunately one of the requirements is to have your OpenPGP key signed
> by at least one Debian Developer, I completely forgot it, sorry.  Look
> at <http://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers> to find someone near you.

Ahh...  There seems no other DD in my city.  I must wait for a travel.

But fortunately, we have a team :)

Thanks,
Des