[git-buildpackage] A gbp workflow question re pq & patches

[Seamus de Mora]

Hello,

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:56 AM Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:

> >
> > Thank you for the suggestion. It's a good one, and I'd follow it except
> for
> > my wish to have a "baseline"  commit that matches "exactly" with the
> state
> > of the apt source package maintained by Raspbian. This may be nonsensical
> > reasoning, but in my present early learning phase, it strikes me as a
> > logical point of departure.
>
> That's what `gbp-import-dsc` gives you, no?


Yes, I'm sure it has. Apologies if my wording gave the impression that my
procrastination is due to anything other than my own preferences. There are
a couple of items I still don't understand, but I wanted to try to resolve
those for myself; for example, I still do not understand why the .dsc file
contains references to 'https://salsa.debian.org/smlx-guest/dhcpcd5.git'. I
don't see anything in that repo that ties it to dhcpcd upstream version
8.1.2. This is only my curiosity, but I do listen to my curiosity pretty
often :)


> > I hope to use this time to ponder a few more questions:
> >
> >    - how to add support for 'buster'?
> >    - how to (and if I should even try) incorporating the 8.1.3 - 8.1.9
> >    releases from the 'dhcpcd' upstream sources?
> >    - linking the 'package' version # to the version # reported by
> 'dhcpcd' ?
> >    - how to verify my package complies with Debian standards?
>
> These should be answered by gbp's manual and Debian's packaging
> information. Also the debian-mentors list might help with questions
> regarding packaging and tools for packaging verification like lintian.


Yes - it's rather a lot to take in over the course of the few hours I've
found to spend on it. I hope that I may continue to depend on your help as
it's been essential to my progress so far.

Thnx,
~S
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