Debian packaging about j4-dmenu-desktop HOT 12 CLOSED

Would it suffice to sign the release tag(s)?

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No. Please sign the .tar.gz tarballs. At least the latest one and for future releases.

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I created a signature for the tarball (at least, I think I did that, never sure with GPG what I actually do... *) ; let's hope GitHubs .tar.gz creation is deterministic...

* for future reference so I don't forget how this is done:

1. Fetch .tar.gz from GH
2. Extract
3. diff extracted tarball and local repo
4. gpg --output rxxxx.tar.gz.sig --detach-sign rxxxxx.tar.gz with key 9B8450B91D1362C1 / 1D1362C1
5. Upload .sig to GH

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Please be aware that Github fails at creating tarballs for big projects. I've seen it fail for Raspberry Linux kernel (300MB). I won't rely on that anymore, even for smaller projects. But I guess it is safe for a few-kb project like j4-demu-desktop.

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For my projects it is working pretty fine. And a lot of projects use it. So maybe for big tarballs it is not working. But I guess that is not an issue for this project.

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Can you make a sense of why this testcase is failing?

1/1 Test #1: j4-dmenu-tests ...................***Failed    0.00 sec
/tmp/buildd/j4-dmenu-desktop-2.12/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/some-file-that-doesnt-exist: No such file or directory
1234 --caption "Regression Test 18"

j4-dmenu-tests is a Catch v1.0 b10 host application.
Run with -? for options


SearchPath/XDG_DATA_HOME

/tmp/buildd/j4-dmenu-desktop-2.12/src/TestSearchPath.cc:12


/tmp/buildd/j4-dmenu-desktop-2.12/src/TestSearchPath.cc:20: FAILED:
  REQUIRE( result.size() == 1 )
with expansion:
  0 == 1

===============================================================================
19 test cases - 1 failed (53 assertions - 1 failed)

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Works for me... also http://golem.enkore.de/job/j4-dmenu-desktop-dev/20/console

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Hm.. strange. Is there maybe an undocumented dependency, like having an X-Server installed and running or something like that? What is this test supposed to check?

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I think it fails when there is no /usr/share/applications folder on the system.

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That folder should be created by one of your base system packages. I'm not too familiar with the Debian packaging standards but arch/fedora/rhel all have that with a basic desktop environment. You might have to depend on whatever provides it for the deb.

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I patched out this specific testcase. The package got uploaded into Debian. Now it is up to the ftp-masters when it will be in official repos.

https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/j4-dmenu-desktop_2.12-1.html

Thank you for your support.

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Your software officially arrived at debian :)

https://packages.debian.org/sid/j4-dmenu-desktop

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