[Scummvm-devel] Debian/Ubuntu Builds and Dists Packaging Files

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Tue Jan 11 21:31:58 CET 2011


D G Turner <d.g.turner at ntlworld.com> schrieb:
> Recently, we had a bug in the release packaging for Debian/Ubuntu i.e.
> "Error in Ubuntu/Debian packages" - ID: 3153624 :
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3153624&group_id=37116&atid=418820
>
> This bug has now been fixed, though there was no associated commit to
> fix this issue, but this rang a faint bell of recollection for me.
>
> Looking back in the scummvm-devel archive, I have found that this issue
> was discussed around v1.2.0 release between _sev and aquadran i.e.
> "Re: [Scummvm-devel] ScummVM 1.2.0 missing builds" dated 10/16/10 10:26
>
><Quote>
> ">> there is no longer dists/debian directory
>> > Ahem. In fact I just took a look. Fingolfin removed it in r48893, but
>> > in the first place it appeared that it _was_ changed by you in
>> > branches, but never forward-ported to trunk. Thus the files there were
>> > at least 2 years old.
> 	I did changes changelog file only for release branches where that make
> sense.
> 	Trunk changelog always point it was build from svn trunk as snapshot
> not release for daily builds."
></Quote>
>
> but no action was taken at the time or since to commit the missing
> distribution packaging files to branch and trunk.
>
> Our current buildbot configuration does produce builds for Debian, but
> only in *.tar.bz2 packaging.
>
> To avoid packaging errors in the future, could we restore dists/debian
> synced to the latest packaging files provided by the Debian porter and
> possibly get buildbot to start building debs automatically?

Or base your builds on the debian/ dir of the packages from debian.org?

Cheers,
        Moritz












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