On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 07:54:45PM +0530, Archisman Panigrahi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 5:41 PM Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 04:57:20PM +0530, Archisman Panigrahi wrote: > > > I am not sure about the native package issue. Has it got something to > > > do with /debian/source/format? I did not exactly understand what is > > > the difference between native and quilt, so went for native. Any > > > suggestion is welcome. > > > > The "native" format is adequate only when there's no separate upstream (and > > often not even then); in this case you are packaging Amit's software that > > has proper releases, tarballs, and all proper trappings. > > > > The packaging is supposed to be composed of two pieces: > > * the upstream (.orig) tarball > > * a packaging tarball, that includes the debian/ dir and a (possibly empty) > > patch series > > > > This was somewhat different with the 1.0 format, but you don't want it -- > > even if you (like me) despite quilt, the "3.0 (quilt)" format with a single > > patch is strictly better than 1.0. > > I am now using 3.0 (quilt). I have uploaded a new release (under the same > version number), please check. > There is some lintian error > "debian-changelog-version-requires-debian-revision". Is it due to the fact > that the debian/changelog in .orig.tar.gz
Lintian has a nice set of explanations for its error messages, they get enables by "-I". These tend to be better than one-paragraph responses reviewers like me reply with (even though an automated tool is not as good at understanding the context). In this case, the version number should end in "-1". > init.py calls other python files in usr/share/brightness-controller/ui and > usr/share/brightness-controller/util, so I want init.py > to be in usr/share/brightness-controller/ as well. Otherwise I will need to > import them across directories which I want to avoid. That's a Python specific question, I can't answer those. I'm afraid that I need to pass you to other people on this mailing list. If you happen to have any Perl questions, though... Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Remember, the S in "IoT" stands for Security, while P stands ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ for Privacy. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
