[Pkg-octave-devel] Filing ITPs for the octave-forge pkgs

[Thomas Weber]

Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 15:21 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-02-28 14:21]:
> 
> > Okay, maybe I'm totally misunderstanding get-oct-pkg-src.pl, but does it
> > retar the tarball? A simple download is possible with the attached files
> > (it contains a dummy changelog, uscan wants a full infrastructure).
> > 
> > And according to uscan's manpage:
> > ==========================================================================
> > The newest updates are retrieved [...] and if specified in the
> > watchfile, a program may then be executed on the newly downloaded
> > source.
> > ==========================================================================
> 
> Your example produces:
> 
> $ tar tfvz audio_1.1.0.orig.tar.gz
> drwxr-xr-x sh/sh             0 2008-02-16 11:35 audio-1.1.0/
> drwxr-xr-x sh/sh             0 2008-02-16 11:35 audio-1.1.0/src/
> -rw-r--r-- sh/sh          2326 2008-02-16 11:14 audio-1.1.0/src/OFSndPlay.cc
> -rw-r--r-- sh/sh          9576 2008-02-16 11:14 audio-1.1.0/src/configure.base
> -rwxr-xr-x sh/sh        133860 2008-02-16 11:34 audio-1.1.0/src/configure
> [snip]
> 
> But what we need is actually this:
> 
> $ tar tfvz audio_1.1.0.orig.tar.gz
> drwxr-xr-x sh/sh            0 2008-02-28 15:19 audio-1.1.0/
> -rw-r--r-- sh/sh       127987 2008-02-28 15:19 audio-1.1.0/audio-1.1.0.tar.gz

So re-taring should do it?

Okay, I'm looking into it, but how do we apply patches to such a
package?

	Thomas