QA before uploading zope packages
Gediminas Paulauskas
menesis at pov.lt
Mon Nov 7 11:01:02 UTC 2011
Hello,
2011/10/17 Arnaud Fontaine <arnau at debian.org>:
> If relevant, could you please add debian/clean like I did for
> zope.authentication and others, otherwise, we end up with such bugs:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645186
You have insisted on me adding debian/clean to all packages before you
will upload them.
It did look suspicious to delete .egg-info directory from source, you
get a few lines of warnings 'Ignoring deletion of...' from
dpkg-buildpackage -S.
And as I feared, there are problems with this approach.
The *.zcml files are not installed. For example,
'/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zope/security/meta.zcml'. And they
are an essential part of zope packages.
SOURCES.txt contains a list of files that have to be installed by
setup.py install. It is generated by setup.py sdist and uses svn
status to determine what files should be installed. But this file is
now deleted by debian/clean, and even though the .egg-info directory
is created, the svn information is not available in the tarball, and
SOURCES.txt does not include e.g. *.zcml and *.txt files, and they are
not being installed.
Therefore, most of recently uploaded zope.* packages (those that
contained a configure.zcml) are broken. So I cannot sync them from
Debian to Ubuntu.
> Also, for debian/control, please don't forget Homepage and Vcs-Browser
> fields and for debian/changelog "Team upload" like I did to avoid
> lintian warning about NMUs.
>
> I know I'm far too fuzzy about details, hope that does not bother you
> too much ;).
It does bother me.
Packages may not be perfect, but if they contain significant fixes,
they are worth an upload. I have asked several times to just upload
packages that were already in Ubuntu.
But a last-minute "bugfix" was made to all packages, not tested, and
soon uploaded. Now all the good work done before is stuck because of
one misguided change.
--
Gediminas
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