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  • Re: rebootstrap status update for Loongarch

    From Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 3 12:40:01 2022
    Quoting Zhang Ning (2022-11-03 11:45:17)
    6, gcc, binutils: need help, I don't know how to submit a patch to Debian toolchain-team, don't accept a poll request.

    7, m4, diffutils: need help, I don't know where is correct upstream[1][2], the patch[3][4] is for generated files, but Debian source has these files, thus how can I submit these patch to Debian source? these two packages don't have VCS.

    8, newt: need help, build failed without python. cdebconf and base-passwd are skipped.

    9, gmp: pass with manuall cross_build action, need help.

    10, libffi: need help, I don't know how to submit a patch to debian libffi, no VCS.

    In Debian, for packages having a VCS is still optional in 2022. And for those packages that do have a VCS, it up to them whether or not they enable receiving merge requests.

    What works for all packages in Debian is to send patches as a bug to the Debian bugtracking system. So just file a bug against the source packages in question and attach your patch to the bug.

    So you can either send all your patches to the bugtracker in the first place (because all source packages accept that way to submit patches) or (and that's what I do) first check if the source package is on salsa and receiving merge requests and submit the patch there and fall back to the bugtracker if there is no reaction to my merge request on salsa.

    Thanks!

    cheers, josch
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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to Zhang Ning on Fri Nov 4 03:50:01 2022
    On Thu, 2022-11-03 at 18:45 +0800, Zhang Ning wrote:

    7, m4, diffutils: need help, I don't know where is correct
    upstream[1][2], the patch[3][4] is for generated files, but Debian
    source has these files, thus how can I submit these patch to Debian
    source? these two packages don't have VCS.

    It is best not to patch generated files, instead they should be
    regenerated from source (and probably removed from the upstream VCS).

    It is best not to patch embedded code copies, instead they should be
    removed from the upstream VCS and tarballs and the system version used.

    In Debian, the dh-autoreconf package is used at build time to
    automatically regenerate all files generated by autotools.

    In Debian, the stack-direction.m4 file is provided by gnulib, but I am
    not sure if that is the canonical place this file is maintained or if
    it is just yet another copy of this file..

    $ apt-file search stack-direction.m4
    gnulib: /usr/share/gnulib/m4/stack-direction.m4

    For m4, it seems Santiago Vila disabled dh-autoreconf in debian/rules,
    but there is no indication of the reason for that. So I suggest you
    test what happens when it is enabled and if the build succeeds and has
    no warnings in the log, then open a bug asking for it to be enabled.

    For diffutils, the same issue and solution applies.

    Another solution would be to ask the upstream m4 and diffutils projects to
    make new releases with updated configure and stack-direction.m4 files and
    then file bugs in Debian asking for package updates to the new releases.

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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