Packaging of Calligra for PA

[Maurice de la Ferté]

Hi,
On 22.02.2013 23:01, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi Maurice,
>
> Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2013, 16:23:15 schrieb Maurice de la Ferté:
>> On 17.02.2013 14:43, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
>>> Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2013, 13:56:58 schrieb Maurice de la Ferté:
>>>> On 17.02.2013 02:02, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
>>>>> Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2013, 04:38:09 schrieb Maurice de la Ferté:
>>>>>> On 16.02.2013 03:21, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
>>>>>>> 2. How is review done for spec/yaml changes?
>>>>>> Best practice is
>>>>>> - 'osc branch Project:KDE:Devel calligra'
>>>>>> - checkout local copy of branched package
>>>>>> - making changes
>>>>>> - building local
>>>>>> - pushing changes
>>>>>> - building remote
>>>>>> - reviewing rpmlint messages in logs
>>>>>> - adding branching repos to test machine
>>>>>> - installing branching packages on test machine
>>>>>> - 'osc submitrequest <branched project> calligra Project:KDE:Devel'
>>>>>> - asking for review on #active
>>>>> First trivial request is up, seems it works all for me :)
>>>> Request is applied :)
>>> \o/
>>>
>>> Okay, now that this is established I can get to serious changes :)
>>>
>>> Nothing in the pipe yet, but already thinking about how to best fix the
>>> incomplete registering for all supported mimetypes within the Calligra
>>> build system. Too late for 2.6.1, but than packagers can always still
>>> patch the released stuff ;)
>>>
>>> Next questions:
>>> Can I reuse that branch I created somehow?
>>> How do I ideally merge the changes from the official calligra package?
>>> Any request is just a diff between the branch to the official package, or?
>> Yes you can reuse this branched project so long you are not deleting
>> it. By sending submit requests via Web-Frontend you will see a checkbox
>> about something like 'deleting after merge', which is enabled by default.
>> This behaviour is disabled by using 'osc submitrequest' via command
>> line.
> Seems it was not disabled for me. Or I did something else which I cannot
> remember :)
>
>> A easy way to keep in sync with original package is following setup:
>>
>> 1. Branch a random package from the original project.
>>       By this you will get the repository setup and build dependencies
>>       from the original project.
>>
>>       e.g. osc branch Project:KDE:Devel/cmake
>>
>> 2. Open project home:<user>:Project:KDE:Devel via Web-Frontend
>>       and enable repository publishing.
>>
>>       Repositories --> Publish Flag --> All --> Explicity enable
>>
>>       By this you are able to install the packages directly on your test
>> machine
>>
>> 3. Open project home:<user>:Project:KDE:Devel via Web-Frontend
>>       and branch the package you like to modify/maintain.
>>
>>       Packages --> Branch package from other project -->
>>       Name of original project: Project:KDE:Devel
>>       Name of package in original project: calligra
>>       Name of branched package in target project:
>> ********[ ] Stay on current revision, don't merge future upstream
>> changes automatically
>>
>> 4. Open project home:<user>:Project:KDE:Devel via Web-Frontend
>>       and delete random package again.
>>
>>       Packages --> cmake --> Delete package
>>
>> By this setup you have all changes from original package plus the
>> changes you are
>> working on. Please note, by this merge conflicts can happen you have to
>> solve on
>> your own.
> Thanks.
>
> Currently preparing the 2.6.1 update as merge request, with some additional
> patches that enable the import filters for more formats, like docx, pptx,
> xslx, ...
>
> (because other than promoted on plasma-active.org Calligra Active so far
> refused to load docx and xlsx, due to hardcoded mimetype checks. oh promoters,
> please check what you claim!)
>
> waiting for the build to finish, then will test on the device. Expect a merge
> request tonight or later this WE :)
>
request applied :)

Great thanks,

Maurice