[Pkg-uml-devel] Re: [Pkg-uml-commit] r134 - trunk/src/kernel-patch-skas/debian

[Mattia Dongili]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:42:04AM +0200, Stefano Melchior wrote:
[...]
> I corrected the big mistake I did with r135 and r136 uploads.
> I was wondering if we can upload the kernel-patch-skas or linux-patch-skas
> in order to make people test it for the upcoming Etch.

the package is not yet ready IMO. Things still missing are at least:
- decide if the source package name change is needed or not and
  implement it eventually, otherwise just implement the binary name
  change _correctly_, see next point;
- provide an empty package that depends on the newly named package to
  automatically pull the new package in on upgrades;
- afaik, make-kpkg still doesn't support the localversion thing I
  mentioned[1] some time ago, so we need to wipe that chunk from the
  patches (using quilt or just erasing unnecessary lines);

[1]: see
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-uml-devel/2006-May/000236.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368539

Also, could you upload the skas patches to the repository? It's
probably easier for everybody to deal with the package if the patches
are there for everybody and those patches hardly change upstream, so
tracking upstream changes won't be a large effort.

[...]
> > Last but not least, why not creating a source package with the new
> > name instead?
> maybe to provide a certain continuity...

so don't change the package name at all. 
That's not the point, the difference is that creating a new source
package will need some more handling now and less later (when removing
kernel-patch-skas in Etch+1), not creating the new source package is
just the opposite (less work now, more in etch+1).

> > Oh, and just for the record, there is a couple of bugs coming from NMUs
> > that need to be ack-ed.
> ... but they refer to old releases 2.6.8 if I don't remember wrong, obviously 
> supported in Sarge but out-of-date for Etch.

http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-ack-nmu

bye
-- 
mattia
:wq!
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