Re: jabberd2 in jessie-backports
On Tue, 05 May 2015, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> I was given a backport ACL bit, and have uploaded the package below. I
> would still appreciate any review from experienced backporters, or
> comments regarding how to deal with the -v flag (see below) -- to me it
> seems the documentation on the Contribute-page is incomplete.
>
> /Simon
>
> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have prepared jabberd2 for jessie-backports and have uploaded it to
> > mentors:
> >
> > http://mentors.debian.net/package/jabberd2
> >
> > Packaging is also available via git:
> > git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-xmpp/jabberd2.git
> >
> > I built the package like this:
> > gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder --git-pbuilder-options=--twice
> > --git-debian-branch=jessie-backports --git-dist=jessie
> >
> > It is based on the version that just entered testing. No bpo-specific
> > changes at all.
> >
> > Would you like to review and upload?
> >
> > I'm still waiting for my backports ACL to do uploads on my own, but for
> > my first uploads, I would appreciate review so I understand the process.
> >
> > As you can see from mentors, there is a lintian
> > backports-changes-missing warning related to -v and I'm not sure how to
> > deal with this. Reading http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ says:
> >
> > Include all changelog entries since the last version on
> > debian-backports or since stable if it's the first version. You
> > should do this by passing "-v" to dpkg-buildpackage. Eg: "debuild
> > -v0.7.5-2", where "0.7.5-2" is the version in stable. If the package
> > wasn't in stable or backports before you don't have include the
> > changelog entrys (but you are free to do so).
> >
> > However, jabberd2 is not in stable nor debian-backports. What should be
> > done in that case? It doesn't say, so I didn't do anything.
"If the package wasn't in stable or backports before you don't have include the
changelog entrys (but you are free to do so)."
What are you missing?
Alex
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