Hi Jonas, On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:31:59PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:45:43PM +0100, Patrik Fimml wrote: >> 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?
Not yet, will be made public soon-ish. I'll give you a temporary repository location to take a peek at in a private mail. >> 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. Apparently. Somehow I slipped into that. ;-) >> 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. I gave packaging 2.8.0 a go yesterday evening (to see if I get in any major hassle) and it went quite well so far. As I am not a DD, even if I officially maintain the package, I'd still need someone to look over the final package and upload it -- would you maybe agree to do that? Patrik
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