[hipl-dev] Re: [Branch ~hipl-core/hipl/trunk] Rev 5961: debian packaging: Integrate Bazaar revision number in package version.
- From: René Hummen <rene.hummen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hipl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:23:37 +0200
On 10.06.2011, at 07:16, Miika Komu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06/10/2011 12:57 AM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 09:25:31PM +0000, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> revno: 5961
>>> committer: Diego Biurrun<diego@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> branch nick: hipl
>>> timestamp: Thu 2011-06-09 23:23:26 +0200
>>> message:
>>> debian packaging: Integrate Bazaar revision number in package version.
>>> modified:
>>> packaging/create-package.sh
>>>
>>> --- packaging/create-package.sh 2011-02-24 09:29:01 +0000
>>> +++ packaging/create-package.sh 2011-06-09 21:23:26 +0000
>>> @@ -86,6 +85,7 @@
>>>
>>> build_deb()
>>> {
>>> + debchange --newversion ${VERSION}-${VCS_REVISION} "entry automatically
>>> added by $0"
>>> dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -I.bzr $BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS
>>> }
>
> please note the related bug report:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hipl/+bug/790833
>
>> This does have one issue though - debian/changelog is changed automatically,
>> but it is a file under revision control. Having such a modified file in the
>> tree can be an annoyance.
>
> Agreed, this is annoying.
In PISA, Samuel modifies the changelog in the build environment of the deflated
dist-tarball created by the packaging framework (dpkg). This way, changes don't
make it into the local working dir.
>> Adding debian/changelog to .bzrignore does not help. What we could do
>> as an alternative is to drop that file from revision control altogether
>> and rely on it being generated automatically always.
>
> Works for me. If you're thinking about generating "bzr log" as the changelog,
> please note that this does not work with the binary maintainer scripts (there
> you'll just have the doc/ChangeLog).
You're thinking about providing a debian/changelog.in that is updated to the
actual debian/changelog by configure?
Ciao,
René
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RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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