On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 07:47:08PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 17.01.2016 um 11:00 schrieb Felix Natter: > > - Build-Depends-Indep vs Build-Depends, espescially gradle-debian-helper! > > It's fine to use Build-Depends exclusively here because we only build > arch:all packages. That means it makes no difference if you split the > build-dependencies between Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep. In > this case it is just a little bit more readable and simpler to use > Build-Depends.
+1 > > - gradle-debian-helper: less verbose build? > > Verbose builds are preferable because automatic tools will be more able > to detect flaws at compile time. +1 > > - test in pbuilder chroot (I cannot currently do this until Thursday > > because of limited bandwidth) > > The package builds fine in a cowbuilder chroot. > > > - Tony: add Replaces: (or similar) tags for transition! > > I don't think we even have to do this. The versions of the new packages > are greater and we keep the old names too. Thus the new binary packages > will simply replace the old ones. The new binary packages provided by > src:insubstantial install completely new artifacts with different names. > Hence I don't see how there could be a conflict. We will also make sure > that all reverse-dependencies will build against the new version and > then we just have to upload everything in one go. Yes, this is a very clean approach. Felix, I'm afraid that I was making it more complicated than it needed to be. > > - upload to experimental + fix r-deps jajuk, bgfinancas, triplea in > > experimental > > (patches: > > https://github.com/fnatter/insubstantial-debian/tree/rdeps/rdeps) > > - upload all to unstable > > Exactly. I will take a closer look at the package now and I intend to > upload insubstantial to experimental tomorrow, if nobody voices any > concerns. This sounds great to me. Markus, thank you for lending a hand. Cheers, tony
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