[maemo-developers] Autobuilder broken or what?

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On May 26, 2009, at 16:25, Antonio Aloisio wrote:

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> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com 
> > wrote:
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> On May 26, 2009, at 14:39, Antonio Aloisio wrote:
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>> Where does this package come from?
>> Actually it comes from the the repository of the guy that has  
>> ported KDE to Maemo.(http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3624)
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> So this has actually never shipped with a distro?
> To be honest.. I don't know.
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>> > Is it the client or server part of mysql? Or both?
>> both ones. But I'm going to remove the server package.
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> You can then change the name to mysql-5.0_5.0.32-0maemo3, you do not  
> need the dfsg designation which appears to mean "debian free  
> software guidelines." If you just package the client, you can call  
> it mysql-client-5.0_5.0.32-0maemo1 so that users will know it is not  
> the whole mysql-common package.
> The point is that there are no other mysql packages that compilable  
> in scratchbox. Then I would like to know was the parent package.
> Btw it's also true that the version history is saved in the  
> changelog file.

Well that is true if you mean the changelog gets updated with the  
package's name and version every time it is re-packaged.
See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgchangelog


> BTW changing the package name is just workaround for the bug in  
> "buildme"...

Well, maemo has an official policy and it would be nice if packages  
followed that policy. If they don't they may get rejected in the  
future. The problem is, if they do not follow the policy they do not  
work well with the underlying APT toolchain, i.e. apt-get and friends.

> But I think that's okay for me and I'll change the version name.

Thanks! :)

Jeremiah
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