upstream release 3.0 final. bugfix only.

[Ryan Mulder]

Binary package hint: wxformbuilder

Sync to upstream version 3.0.57 - the final release for 3.0
Only includes bug fixes.

[Ryan Mulder (ryanjmulder)]

Homepage: http://www.wxformbuilder.org

The upstream changelog refers to bugs with a FS#, the details can be found on this tracker:
http://issues.wxformbuilder.org

To test that the new version works, I uploaded the source to my ppa, installed the resulting binary package on Hardy Beta, and ran it.
Everything worked as expected.

I know hardy is very close to release, but this is the culmination of over 6 months of only bug fixes, so it would wonderful if the final, official version 3.0 was included in hardy.

Thanks for your help.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Motu-release ack.

Note that, from a sponsoring pov, you shouldn't edit old changelog entries:

 wxformbuilder (3.0.55-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

- * Fixed build on architectures other than i386 and amd64. (LP: #192818)
+ * Fixed build on architectures other than i386 and amd64.

Also, there is a difference (see attachment) between your tarball and the one produced with the get-orig-source target?

[Ryan Mulder (ryanjmulder)]

The changelog was accidental, I will restore the old entry.

The get-orig-source target creates makefiles for the orig source, using the makefile generator included in the orig source. It expects wx-config to be available, but it was not on the system that you ran the get-orig-source on (wx-config is provided by libwxgtk2.8-dev, which is a build-dep).

I realize that this is not ideal, but it was a workaround for the makefile generator (premake) not being available on Ubuntu.
I hope to package premake for the next version of Ubuntu so that this oddity is resolved.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

If you don't subscribe the sponsors this will never get through.

[Ryan Mulder (ryanjmulder)]

I'm sorry, I thought I needed to wait for two motu-release acks before subscribing the sponsors.
My mistake.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

No problem, its one ack only since it is a bug-fix only.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

The wxformbuilder_3.0.57.orig.tar.gz tarball you attached contains a directory called "wxformbuilder_3.0.57.orig" instead of "wxformbuilder-3.0.57". I've fixed that, but before I upload, can you confirm if that was indeed a mistake?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Please use the tarball from upstream and not one provided by a packager.

[Ryan Mulder (ryanjmulder)]

@Siegfried: It was indeed a mistake. I am both the upstream developer and the package maintainer, so I still make some mistakes blurring the boundaries like this. Thank you for fixing it.

@Scott: That tarball is from upstream, its name is an artifact of the helper scripts that I used.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

> @Scott: That tarball is from upstream, its name is an artifact of the
> helper scripts that I used.

It would make life easier for Debian and it's derivatives if you'd either
release a tar.gz from upstream or include your helper script as a
get-orig-source rule in debian/rules so there is a consisten semi-automated
process for converting to a tar.gz.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

I've noticed that your tarball has some files that are in that one from the website. As Scott is uncomfortable with using a tarball different than that one from the website, I've to ask you to include all files that are necessary to build but aren't in that tarball into the .diff.gz. Thanks.

[Ryan Mulder (ryanjmulder)]

There is a get-orig-source rule in debian/rules that executes my helper script, it was used to make the tarball.
Note that Cesare Tirabassi executed the rule and diff'd the tarball I posted with the results of the run, here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wxformbuilder/+bug/218001/comments/8

The source archive posted on the website is meant to be platform-independent, and so it does not contain the Makefiles, instead, it expects users to generate them. This creates some headaches when using it for a debian build, so the get-orig-source rule generates the Makefiles before creating a source archive.

I've now run get-orig-source, corrected the naming error pointed out by Siegfried, uploaded it to SourceForge, and posted a link on the website's download page.
Here is a link to the archive on SourceForge:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxformbuilder/wxformbuilder-3.0.57.tar.gz?download

I've also attached it to this post.

The .diff.gz remains the same.

I'm sorry for all the trouble/confusion that I've caused. Hopefully this will satisfy the need to be able to repeatably produce this package.
Thank you both for your help.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Sounds reasonable to me. Thanks.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Okay, I'm test building it again just to be sure and will upload it then in some minutes. I hadn't noticed the get-orig-source rule, sorry for that (but having the tarball available upstream is much better anyway :)).

Thanks for contributing to Ubuntu.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wxformbuilder - 3.0.57-0ubuntu1

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wxformbuilder (3.0.57-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Sync to upstream 3.0.57. Bug fixes only. (LP: #218001)

 -- Ryan Mulder <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:06:25 -0400