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-------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- From: Kambiz Darabi darabi@m-creations.com To: Faré fahree@gmail.com Cc: Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info, Debian Common Lisp Team pkg-common-lisp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, ASDF-devel asdf-devel@common-lisp.net Subject: Re: [Asdf-devel] Wanted: Debian packager Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:57:10 +0200

Hello,

On 2014-05-16 07:12 CEST, Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:

That said, I can do the asdf debian package one last time for 3.1.2. I've experimented a bit and come up with a better recipe. Apparently the trick to avoid dealing with complications is to work in a branch where the only changes since the upstream release tag are in the debian/ directory. If you let me do it, I'll do it in the release branch. I updated the bin/asdf-builder script to do the release (moving code from the Makefile and making it better — scripting is SO much better in Lisp). Of course, the script as exists in the release branch is insufficient, and since it does a git clean -xfd we need to extract it from master under another name everytime. So: I committed some debian-only changes in my release branch (not pushed — but I can do it if you approve, and even upload), and ran: git show master:bin/asdf-builder > bin/x && chmod a+x bin/x && ./bin/x debian-package and it looks like it worked. I can push all that if you want, or show you how to do it. It's a matter of git checkout release ; git show master:debian/changelog > debian/changelog ; edit debian/changelog

I have never packaged for Debian, but I use it since rex (1996). With a bit of hand-holding, I might be able to do the packaging work.

Where can I fetch your changes?

Kambiz Darabi -------------------- End of forwarded message --------------------