reminders-app NEW review

Didier Roche didier.roche at canonical.com
Fri Jul 4 11:20:42 UTC 2014


Le 04/07/2014 12:16, Colin Watson a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 12:09:23PM +0200, David Planella wrote:
>>     On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Colin Watson <[1]cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>       You could avoid having to do the chmod in override_dh_install if you
>>       converted the source package to the 3.0 (quilt) format; that would mean
>>       that the executable bit would be preserved in the source package.
>>
>>     Indeed, I saw that and StevenK suggested the same, but then I was advised
>>     to drop the debian/source folder as per the instructions in [2]. If this
>>     is a better way and it is compatible with the CI train, then I'll be happy
>>     to change the source to 3.0 (quilt).
> The thrust of that advice seems to be to drop all quilt patches, and
> then it's just dropping debian/source/ as a side-effect.  I think this
> is probably slightly misguided - it's perfectly reasonable to use the
> 3.0 (quilt) format even if you have no quilt patches, and as this shows
> it can be useful to do so (another reason why it might be useful would
> be if one needed to ship binary files under debian/).  You should check
> with a CI train expert whether it's compatible, though.
>
> Thanks,
>
I confirm this is completely compatible. Some of the sources are using 
it. Not sure why this instruction is there as this was from early 
daily-release days, 2 years ago, but then, was fixed.

Cheers,
Didier



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