From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Regarding: Debian: packaging updates. Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:30:21 -0800 Message-ID: <7vbr0vey42.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <4370EEF7.4060708@debian.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 08 20:30:43 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZZAo-00033w-MM for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:30:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965284AbVKHTaY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:30:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965285AbVKHTaX (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:30:23 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao05.cox.net ([68.230.241.34]:27290 "EHLO fed1rmmtao05.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965284AbVKHTaX (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:30:23 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051108192937.PDHO29333.fed1rmmtao05.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:29:37 -0500 To: Simon Richter User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Simon Richter writes: > I'm currently in the process of working my way through the current > packaging, and there is quite a lot I am going to simplify. As the > Debian build scripts do not expect this file to be autogenerated, I > think it would be counterproductive to do so; it can seriously affect > reproducability of builds. > > (actually, I would like to ask not to fix things in the Debian packaging > that aren't broken, as providing an upgrade path for earlier versions > will be a lot less painful then) Noted. I just barely speak enough deb to build binary packages, and the source packaging and upload procedure are something I've never bothered to learn, so I won't be touching that area from now on. Since you have debian.org e-mail address, perhaps you can feed me patches to debian/ area and deb: rule in the main Makefile? I was asked to use dpkg-buildpackage/dpkg-genchanges and produce the *.changes file as well by somebody who maintains his own private apt source. I'd appreciate if you can take care of it when you update the Makefile deb: rule as well, if the *.changes file request makes sense to you.