Hi Edward,

On 02/10/2016 08:09 AM, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is an email sent to me by Daniel Reurich<gitlab@???>
>
> Begin Email Quote:
>
> Hi Edward,
>
> I've forked and tried to build your project:
> https://git.devuan.org/net/simple-netaid
>
> It's failed to build the sources for a very basic reason:
>

>      You need to decide if this is primarily a native Devuan/Debian
> project or an upstream project being packaged for Devuan. Either is
> fine, but currently the packaging appears to be a half way between.
> IE; you have a patch series that indicates a quilt package but no
> upstream branch, tags, tarball or pristine-tar branch of the original
> unde[bi|vu]anised sources.

>
> I suggest either merge the patches into the source, and change the
> source format to either "3.0 (native)" or "3.0 (git)" (we support
> gitsrc in our build system unlike debian), or alternatively produce
> either a separate upstream branch of the clean sources, or a pristine
> tar branch (pain in the arse - I don't recommend this) or even just a
> plain old tar ball.
>
> I guess the choice comes down to your primary target. If you
> developing this primarily for Devuan then native or gitsrc formats are
> fine. I'd vote for gitsrc but I'm biased due to having added the
> support for that format to our build system and I don't understand why
> you'd want tarball based srcs for packages developed and built from
> git.
>
> I can do the conversion to gitsrc for this pretty quickly and
> painlessly and get this building in Devuan.
>
> Let me know.
>
> End Email Quote:
>
>
> If I am understanding well, the state of my sources is in a hybrid
> state between Debianized and Non-Debianized.
>
> Can anyone have some patience to explain to me what commands, I assume
> git commands, I have to run to do what Daniel (Centurion_Dan) is
> asking? My textual source files are already up to date, so what will
> patching actually do?
>
> Should I edit debian/source/format to contain:
> 3.0 (native)
>
> instead of
>
> 3.0 (quilt)
>
> Thanks, Edward.

$ git clone https://git.devuan.org/edbarx/netman.git

$ mv netman simple-netaid

$ tar -c simple-netaid | bzip2 > simple-netaid_0.1.1.orig.tar.bz2

$ pristine-tar commit ../simple-netaid_0.1.1.orig.tar.bz2 tags/0.1.1

$ git-buildpackage -tc --git-export-dir="../build-area"
--git-pristine-tar --git-tag --git-ignore-branch

You can also create a hidden config .gbp file instead of using arguments
in the command line.

HTH.

Aitor.