Ubuntu Packaging Guide

[Packaging New Software] Example does not build

Bug #913934 reported by sephi on 2012-01-09

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu Packaging Guide	Fix Released	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Regarding the walk-through at http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/packaging-new-software.html;

For kqrcode 0.4, the archive appears to have file corruption.

Going with version 0.6 instead, the user will be presented with an error that "qrcodec.h" is missing. It must be extracted from the following archive and placed in the kqrcode source dir.
http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/sourceforge/k/project/kq/kqrcode/KQRCode-dev/kqrcode-dev-0.6.0.tar.gz

This is technically a kqrcode bug, but all of this info should probably be noted here as well.

On a side note, kqrcode appears to be a moribund project. Perhaps a better-maintained example package could be substituted in later revisions?

Related branches

lp:~kinggoddard/ubuntu-packaging-guide/913934-fix

Merged into lp:ubuntu-packaging-guide at revision 80

Andrew Starr-Bochicchio: Approve on 2012-03-12

lp:ubuntu-packaging-guide

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2012-01-17:

Jonathan: do you know anything about this?

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Goddard (kinggoddard) wrote on 2012-02-02:

I can verify. I just went through the steps as a new user. The 0.4 version of kqrcode is corrupted. Not only is their a problem with the qrcodec.h file I also got another error in "kqrcodewindow.cpp". I saw unreadable symbols at the end of the file.

Switching to the latest version 0.6 solved my problems. If you give me access to the document I will make the change if you don't have time.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2012-02-02:

If you could help, that'd be great. The steps involved should be something like this:

bzr branch lp:ubuntu-packaging-guide
cd ubuntu-packaging-guide
<make necessary changes>
bzr commit --fixes lp:913934 -m "<explanation of what you fixed>"
bzr push lp:~kinggoddard/ubuntu-packaging-guide/913934-fix
bzr lp-open
<click on "(+) propose for merging">

Thanks in advance. I hope Jonathan can then help review it.

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2012-02-06

summary:	- kqrcode example needs further instructions + [Packaging New Software] Example does not build
Changed in ubuntu-packaging-guide:
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Triaged

Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) on 2012-02-06

Changed in ubuntu-packaging-guide:
status:	Triaged → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)

Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) on 2012-02-06

Changed in ubuntu-packaging-guide:
status:	In Progress → Triaged
assignee:	Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) → nobody

Goddard (kinggoddard) on 2012-02-13

Changed in ubuntu-packaging-guide:
assignee:	nobody → Goddard (kinggoddard)

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2012-02-22:

As suggested in https://code.launchpad.net/~kinggoddard/ubuntu-packaging-guide/913934-fix/+merge/91773 it might make more sense to use an example which is less likely to break, ie GNU Hello.

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sephi (sskalnik) wrote on 2012-02-22: Re: [Bug 913934] Re: [Packaging New Software] Example does not build

Indeed, I found it odd that GNU Hello was not used, as it's what I have
seen in other introductions to packaging. Perhaps consistency and tradition
would provide the simplest solution.

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Goddard (kinggoddard) wrote on 2012-02-22:

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On 12-02-22 06:37 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> As suggested in https://code.launchpad.net/~kinggoddard/ubuntu-
> packaging-guide/913934-fix/+merge/91773 it might make more sense to
> use an example which is less likely to break, ie GNU Hello.
>

I will use that then.
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