BIRD 2.0.8

[Skyler Mäntysaari]

Hi Peter,

I followed your instructions, but the end result of that was just 
errors. Did you do something else to get it built?
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dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package bird2
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 2.0.8-1
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution UNRELEASED
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by root <root at debian-mips64el>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture mips64el
  dpkg-source --before-build bird2
  debian/rules clean
dh clean
dh: Compatibility levels before 5 are no longer supported (level 1 
requested)
debian/rules:21: recipe for target 'clean' failed
make: *** [clean] Error 255
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
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On 08/04/2021 12.00, Peter Hurtenbach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Below are my steps I've done to import the new upstream version and 
> build the package with git-buildpackage on a Debian Buster machine (or 
> chroot).
>
> Please note that I didn't really look at the circumstances of the 
> package and whether this is all appropriate with the new version, as 
> it worked for me. This is also the reason I dropped the doc patch 
> because I don't need the man within the package.
>
>> #Install prerequisites
>> apt install git-buildpackage
>> apt install pristine-tar
>> #Build dependencies
>> apt install bison debhelper docbook-xsl flex libncurses5-dev 
>> libreadline-dev libssh-gcrypt-dev linuxdoc-tools-latex m4 opensp 
>> quilt texlive-latex-extra xsltproc build-essential
>> #Clone from debian Gitlab
>> mkdir bird2
>> cd bird2
>> #Download current release (didn't get the ftp uscan working)
>> wget https://bird.network.cz/download/bird-2.0.8.tar.gz
>> gbp clone --pristine-tar https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bird2.git
>> cd bird2
>> #Import new upstream version
>> gbp import-orig ../bird-2.0.8.tar.gz
>> #Generate changelog entry
>> gbp dch
>> git add debian/changelog
>> git commit -m "Update changelog"
>> #Remove patches
>> # - 0001-Sync-the-linuxdoc-mangled-files-with-linuxdoc-tools_.patch: 
>> I had an issue with missing Latin1ToSgml.pm and I dont need the 
>> adjusments to the doc generation and will not install the doc package
>> # - 0002-Added-missing-extern.patch: This change is already included 
>> in current release
>> rm debian/patches/*.patch
>> > debian/patches/series
>> git add debian/patches
>> git commit -m "Remove patches"
>> # Create tag because during the build the latest tag (git describe) 
>> is set to BIRD_VERSION
>> git tag -a "debian/2.0.8-1"
>> #Build
>> dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> Just contacted Ondřej Surý and Benjamin Drung (he did the last commit)
>> about helping out to bump https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bird2/ to 
>> 2.0.8.
>>
>> In parallel asked the backports list about adopting BIRD2 in Debian
>> Backports.
>>
>> To be continued...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Keee
>
>