Bug#534263: sdm: new upstream version: 0.4.1

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:53:36PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:20:41AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 04:32:58PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>as requested, i've put together a new upstream tarball.

I'll have a look at it later (too busy right now)

well, i gave it a go...

i attempted to import it into the git repository and update the packaging to prepare for a new release, and the commits seem to have been pushed, but it didn't seem to push the tags, and i'm not quite sure about the upstream/pristine-tar branches that git-import-orig worked with and/or created.

Looks good to me.



  git push --all && git push --tags

As I understand it, Git only pushes tags when explicitly told. I use the following (and are careful to not create unofficial branches):

i'm not so savvy with git/git-buildpackage, but this is at least giving me some practical application... :)

  git-import-orig --fast-import --sign-tags ../properly-named-new-tarball
  ...
  git log
  git log -p
  git dch --since 60089e3

These are the only commands I usually need (together with the defaults included in debian/gbp.conf): That last one use some leftmost digits of the hash of a git commit - usually the latest entry touching the changelog file.

i'll try and get some clues on how to clean it up and upload after 0.4.0b-5 migrates to testing.

i'll also have to figure out how to use the debian/copyright_hints stuff...

Run these commands:

  DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 fakeroot debian/rules pre-build
  DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 fakeroot debian/rules clean
  mv debian/copyright_newhints debian/copyright_hints
  git diff









  git commit -m "Update changelog, control and copyright hints." -a

or the following to finalize a package:

  DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 fakeroot debian/rules pre-build
  DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 fakeroot debian/rules clean
  git stat
  mv debian/copyright_newhints debian/copyright_hints (if needed)
  git diff
  dch -r
  git commit -m "Prepare release. Update changelog, control and copyright 
hints." -a
  localgitcowdebuild sid --git-tag



  localcowbuilder-create sid

You might want to install approx and adjust /etc/pbuilderrc to use it.


Hope that all makes sense, and is of some use :-)


 - Jonas

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That last one is the important one: the very point of the excercise is to check if changes to debian/copyright (which is maintained by hand) is needed. the clean rule, when done in DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE, might also update debian/control. Make sure to verify that too, and add a note in changelog if things have changed. I have learned to separate changes to changelog from other commits, to ease eventual reverting of changes and cherry-picking across packages. The automated changes makes little sense to isolate in own commits, so I usually do those together - e.g. like this after inspecting with "git diff" above: That last command is a wrapper for debuild+cowdancer+pbuilder available at my /usr/local/bin repository at git://source.jones.dk/bin - if interested, then the following command bootstraps such environment (provided that the relevant scripts are in PATH, e.g. put in /usr/local/bin):

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