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Author: Edward Bartolo
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To: aitor_czr
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] netman-autostart_0.1.1
Hi,

Since I received no replies I will attempt a manual edit of
netman-gui.postinst keeping debconf-41822e0-27.12.2015.patch as a
guide. Trying to persuade the patching software to accept the patch is
more likely to be time consuming, therefore, I am opting to do a
manual edit.

Edward

On 05/01/2016, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
> Hi Aitor,
>
> Sorry for taking so long to resume work on netman. At the moment I am
> trying to apply your netman debconf patch. However, git apply --index
> ../aitor/debconf-41822e0-27.12.2015.patch is failing complaining that:
>
> ../aitor/debconf-41822e0-27.12.2015.patch:10: trailing whitespace.
> #!/bin/sh -e
> ../aitor/debconf-41822e0-27.12.2015.patch:23: trailing whitespace.
> . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> ../aitor/debconf-41822e0-27.12.2015.patch:33: trailing whitespace.
> db_version 2.0
> ../aitor/debconf-41822e0-27.12.2015.patch:34: trailing whitespace.
> #db_capb backup
> ../aitor/debconf-41822e0-27.12.2015.patch:35: trailing whitespace.
> db_capb escape
> error: patch failed: debian/netman-gui.postinst:1
> error: debian/netman-gui.postinst: patch does not apply
>
> What is wrong? I opened the patch with medit to view the offending
> characters. In case understanding the cause of this issue an unjustied
> long time, I can always apply the patch manually by editing text
> directly.
>
> Edward
>
> On 27/12/2015, aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On 12/27/2015 02:40 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks Aitor. At the moment, I am exercising my maintainer's skills on
>>> a simple package I created but that I didn't upload. This is to
>>> sharpen my skills so that I avoid stupid mistakes with git while at
>>> the same time, I learn.
>>>
>>> Edward
>>
>> I pushed to gitlab the latest version with *debconf*:
>>
>> https://git.devuan.org/aitor_czr/netman/branches
>>
>> I will repeat the proccess:
>>
>> $ git clone https://git.devuan.org/aitor_czr/netman.git
>>
>> $ cd netman
>>
>> $ pristine-tar checkout ../netman_0.1.1-41822e0.orig.tar.bz2
>> pristine-tar: successfully generated ../netman_0.1.1-41822e0.orig.tar.bz2
>>
>> $ git-buildpackage -tc --git-export-dir="../build-area"
>> --git-pristine-tar --git-tag --git-ignore-branch
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>       Aitor.

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