Created version 1:040412-4 of my Debian package The HardwareBook (HwB), posted a message about it to the Debian Mentors mailing list, and uploaded it to mentors.debian.net:
More information regarding Debian package format v3.0:
Some messages that are part of a long thread regarding the format:
It was noted in, for instance, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/02/msg00533.html regarding a script that can be used for the initial conversion from dpatch to quilt. That message is also part of a long thread regarding the format.
It was noted in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/02/msg00551.html regarding being able to use a debian directory from upstream
Version v3.2.9 of MakeNL has been released, and the source archives mn329src.zip and makenl-3.2.9.tar.gz have been made available on the Sourceforge site. (I synced what I had for 3.2.7e to the CVS repository and used that as the basis of the release.)
I will have at least the zip file on my system, and will also be working on a Debian package. I'll be updating the web site to reflect this. (Already corrected the link to the CVS repository.)
A couple of write up I found, regarding converting a Debian package from using dpatch to using quilt:
Example write up of simple conversion of dpatch to quilt - http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-devel@lists.debian.org/msg256212.html
Another writeup of converting from dpatch to quilt - http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/08/converting-debian-packages-from-dpatch.html
Made the GIT repository of my Hardware Book package public by pushing it to Alioth.
Started preparation of a new MakeNL release, v3.2.9, which is being taken from v3.2.7e. It is not being released as v3.2.8 because someone hatched out an entirely unofficial v3.2.8 archive so the consensus was to skip that version and go to v3.2.9 for the next official release.
I had created a debian package of v3.2.7e, with the source for that coming from the origianal cvs repository (before that repository went down and we had to move the project to Sourceforge). Still need to verify that the source in that package and the source we now have in the cvs repository as v3.2.7e (and becoming v3.2.9) is the same. (Not counting things like differences in the debian/ directory.)
Initialized a GIT repository for HwB (Hardware Book) Debian packaging at Alioth, using [1] as a reference for doing so. Will push my local repository there after I finish cleaning the local one up.
Experimented with creating a GIT repository for MakeNL. Converted an old BZR repository of v3.2.7e to GIT. Found a way to import the CVS repository at the MakeNL SourceForge site in to a GIT repository. Also created some tar.gz archives from the zip source archives, then imported them into a GIT repository. Will continue experimenting until decide how I want the repository to be.
TinyTIC v0.6.1 has been released and is available for download as tt061s.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftnapps/files/tinytic/. It is also also available from my system (ftn.rocasa.us, 1:120/544) and has been hatched out via the UTILLNX FDN.
Found an example for fixing email addresses in a GIT repository at
