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Re: Trying to update Gutenprint on the Debian GIT repository



Quoting Till Kamppeter (2016-02-12 02:26:13)
> On 02/11/2016 10:44 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Till Kamppeter (2016-02-12 00:55:06)
> >> I am trying to update Gutenprint to 5.2.11 final but have problem to
> >> import the new source tarball.
> >>
> >> First, uscan does not work for me because it considers 5.2.11-pre2 newer
> >> than 5.2.11.

Squeeze in a dversionmangle into debian/watch and try again.


> >> After downloading the source tarball and linking it to
> >> gutenprint_5.2.11.orig.tar.bz2 manually I try to import, but it
> >> complains about practically all files having local changes which would
> >> get overwritten. See below.
> >>
> >> Can you update the source and tell me what I did wrong? Thanks.
> >
> > I don't know for sure the cause of your problems, but I suggest to try
> > replacing your initial "git clone ..." with "debcheckout -a gutenprint".
> >
> > Hope that works better for you...
> >
> >   - Jonas
> >
> 
> Tried it now and it results in the same error, but thanks anyway.

Oh well - then better leave it to current maintainers to fix the mess.


 - Jonas

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