Subject: Re: Let's fork iwd for Devuan

From: Job Bautista <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 04:43:59 +0000

Hi, I updated my git repo to address your comments. Are there anything else I need to do? Thanks :)

Job Bautista

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On Wednesday, August 5, 2020 8:23 PM, Mark Hindley <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Job,

> Many thanks for taking this on.
> 

> A few comments on https://git.devuan.org/jobbautista9/iwd
> 

> -   The branch should be suites/unstable.
> -   Add Origin: Devuan to d/control
> -   You need to update d/gbp.conf, in particular debian-branch, debian-tag and
>     pristine-tar. Devuan avoids using pristine-tar.
>     

> -   Vcs-* fields in d/control should be https://git.devuan.org/devuan/iwd (where
>     the definitive source will be once it is accepted)
>     

> -   You don't need quilt patches for changes in debian/. So you can just create
>     the initscript as debian/iwd.init.
>     

> -   You shouldn't add the initscript control fragments to the maintscripts
>     manually, debhelper should do it (correctly) for you.
>     

>     Other than the last item, these are documented in the Devuan Maintainers
>     Guide[1]. If anything is not clear do ping me on #devuan-dev.
>     

>     Thanks

>     Mark (LeePen)

>     [1] https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documentation/src/branch/master/maintainers
>