[Asdf-devel] Wanted: Debian packager

[Faré]

I already replied to this same message in another thread:

Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 21:06:07 +0200
Message-ID: <CAN7nBXeX8Puhp0MqEKeWmUYbhZ97d62QTLoTEyYB=maiCzKU=A at mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFS: Please upload cl-asdf package
From: =?UTF-8?B?RmFyw6k=?= <fare at tunes.org>
To: Kambiz Darabi <darabi at m-creations.com>,
Debian Common Lisp Team <pkg-common-lisp-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>

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We [the French] will accept any master who will let us enjoy the good life,
with good food, sweet romance and long vacations; and we'll use that good life
to corrupt whoever will rule us into embracing our way of life. Yet we'll
abandon him for a stronger master the moment that his weakness is apparent.


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Kambiz Darabi <darabi at m-creations.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wrote a message with detailed questions some days ago, which I
> obviously didn't send and I also don't find in my drafts folder :(
>
> So, sorry for the delay and here I go again:
>
> On 2014-05-20 20:57 CEST, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I found that this magic command helps:
>>
>> 1- edit files in debian/ and debian/ only ... if you need to patch
>> things beside packaging,
>>   it's going to be more complex than I know how to deal with.
>> 2- commit them, maybe commit --amend if no one else has seen your
>> previous attempts...
>> 3-
>> git clean -xfd ; git-buildpackage --git-debian-branch=release
>> --git-upstream-tag="%(version)s" --git-tag --git-retag
>> --git-force-create --git-ignore-branch
>
> I looked at the changes in minimakefile branch and tried to follow the
> steps you outline in the (not yet implemented) release function. I
> assume that that function is meant to automate all of the release
> process and not only the debian packaging, so some of my questions below
> might be silly in this light, but I will ask though.
>
>> (defun release ()
>>   "Release the code (not implemented)"
>>   #| RELEASE or PUSH checklist:
>> make test-all
>
> Which implementations do you test with before uploading a new package?
> Which version of those implementations do you use?
>
>> defaultLisps = ccl clisp sbcl ecl ecl_bytecodes cmucl abcl scl allegro lispworks allegromodern gcl xcl mkcl
>
> I got as far as abcl (1.3.1, the current release), but the test hangs
> for hours and although abcl is described as 'damn slow' in run-tests.sh,
> I thought this might be a real issue.
>
> What would be the recommended next step? Can I run the tests with higher
> verbosity? If I cannot resolve the problem myself, do I contact the
> maintainers?
>
>> make test-load-systems s=fare-all
>
> I assume fare-all is one of your libs, but couldn't find it although I
> searched a bit.
>
>> make bump v=3.0
>> edit debian/changelog # RELEASE only...
>
> I noticed that debian/changelog is very detailed and contains much more
> information than I could deduce from the commit messages. Is it edited
> by the devs during the development cycle? If not, I hope it wouldn't be
> my duty to come up with such detailed and knowledgeable information
> about the changes.
>
>> git commit
>> git tag 3.0 # for example ...
>> make debian-package
>
> I had to install:
>
> fare-mop
> named-readtables
> optima
> fare-quasiquote
> inferior-shell
> fare-utils
>
> Would it possible/desirable to have them as git submodule or git subtree
> in the repo for the build to be independent of the versions of the
> dependencies?
>
> The current version of master in version.lisp-expr is 3.1.2.3. I changed
> it to 3.1.2 to avoid the error
>
>> Debian version 2:3.1.2-3 doesn't match asdf version 3.1.2.3
>
> but unfortunately, I get the following backtrace:
>
>> ./bin/asdf-builder debian-package master
>> building package version 2:3.1.2.3-1
>> Unhandled SB-INT:SIMPLE-PROGRAM-ERROR in thread #<SB-THREAD:THREAD
>>                                                   "main thread" RUNNING
>>                                                    {1002A8B3B3}>:
>>   unknown &KEY argument: :DIRECTORY
>>
>> Backtrace for: #<SB-THREAD:THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1002A8B3B3}>
>> 0: (RUN (GIT-BUILDPACKAGE (--GIT-DEBIAN-BRANCH= "master") (--GIT-UPSTREAM-TAG= "%(version)s") --GIT-TAG --GIT-RETAG --GIT-FORCE-CREATE --GIT-IGNORE-BRANCH) :DIRECTORY #P"/opt/repo/asdf/" :SHOW T) [more,optional]
>
>
>> I've uploaded a new package 2:3.1.2-2 at
>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/cl-asdf after a few attempts.
>
> You set version.lisp-expr to 3.1.2 manually before building the package?
>
>> In case of difficulties, #debian-mentors on irc.oftc.net is here to help.
>> Finally, not only am I in the process of getting away from ASDF,
>> I also am getting away from Debian: I'm not using it at home anymore
>> (I'm a convert to NixOS),
>> and at work I'm using Ubuntu boxes but they are mostly work-managed.
>
> I would probably set up a debian vm to have a clean env for building the
> package.
>
>
> I still have questions regarding the release workflow but for the
> moment, I'd like to get the technical part straight.
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Kambiz