Hi Patrik, and others following this issue, On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:45:43PM +0100, Patrik Fimml wrote:
Note that upstream doesn't track ABI changes through SONAME, which would further complicate the packaging of libabiword.
Yes, I am aware of this. Thanks for bringing it up here, though.
After private conversations with Masayuki Hatta primo 2009 I started work on solving this.
As a result of the mentioned discussion, I did some packaging work too in July 2009, starting the repository from scratch, following some of the various git packaging recommendations. Part of this is using topgit instead of dpatch.
Oh, ok.I use quilt, not dpatch (ar actually, I do not actually use the quilt helper tools but compose patch files by hand and only use the cdbs-wrapped packaging routines of quilt).
I might have mentioned topgit myself back then, but have since (after struggling with similar repackaging of ghostscript) given up on using topgit and am now sceptical about its usefulnes for Debian packaging.
Nevertheless, I would still be quite interested in looking at your packaging efforts. Is it accessible at some public Git somehwere?
Would you be interested in helping maintain the package if done with git-buildpackage, cdbs and quilt, but without topgit?
I think 2.7.6 (with which I started packaging from scratch) is in a somewhat working stage in my repo, and after mhatta and joshk seem to have lost interest (see also debian bug #548365), I intended to give packaging 2.8.0 a try from what I have with 2.7.6 when it comes out the next days.
Oh - so you have actually taken over packaging of Abiword now. Nice to know.
Now you've stepped up to the plan again ;-)
Actually I would appreciate not having to work on Abiword - I maintain approx. 100 packages already. My interest in Abiword is only the library, not the main application.
But if you feel that you could need my help, and are ok with using git-buildpackage, cdbs and quilt and avoiding topgit (or convincing me that topgit is great for packaging - including regenerating patches for stable and oldstable security branches), then it makes sense to continue discussing this. Else you just go ahead with your plans and I step down again.
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