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[OXullo Intersecans <x@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Chase,
thank you so much for your time.

On 02/feb/2011, at 20.59, Chase Douglas wrote:

> * Overall, I'd suggest moving to bzr and hosting on launchpad. It's
> certainly your choice where you host things, but I think you would find
> launchpad helpful for handling source code and bugs. Launchpad can even
> do the import from your svn repo for you :).

Is there a practical way to leave the upstream codebase on libavg.de svn server (so we can keep the current workflow) and use launchpad just for packaging purposes?

> * I see you added a man page to your packaging, probably at the prodding
> of lintian :). I suggest moving the man page into your source tree
> itself and then installing the man page from there instead. That way
> other distros have access to the man page too.

Indeed it was only a choice dictated by lintian warnings. I suppose that, at least for the games, it would be more practical to get rid of the manpages.

> * As you make revisions to the package, I suggest following what I've
> done here:
[..]
> --- Loop over 4 and 5 as many times as necessary
>  4. Make another change
>  5. Run 'dch' to add a new changelog entry
> ---

clear. I will follow this procedure for the other games as well, keeping in mind the changes you made.
May I apply this procedure to python-libavg (the library all the games depend on) as well?

> When you are ready to push to a ppa, append ~ppa# (1,2,3,4, etc.) to the
> package version (but don't commit this to the source code repository).

You mean to my branch of your bzr repo or to the upstream one?
Sorry if it's a dumb question, my confusion comes from the ppa-versioned changelog entry that I found on your bzr repo.

> When you are ready to push to the Ubuntu archive, create a release:
>  1. Run 'dch -r'
>  2. Run 'debcommit -r' (this will commit and tag the repository)

And then open bugs for new packages, upload to REVU?

> That's all I have for now. For further packaging help, I suggest
> emailing the ubuntu developers mailing list.

Thanks again for your help.
cheers


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OXullo Intersecans