[Ros-release] Troubles releasing a wet package to Hydro

[Tully Foote]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Tully Foote <tfoote at osrfoundation.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi Jack,
> >
> > It looks like you fixed the issue in:
> >
> https://github.com/ros-drivers/camera1394/commit/8568997546fa76e207d04798cb09e0e213609891
> > However the job you linked us to was still building 1.9.0 not 1.9.1.  If
> you
> > update the version I'd expect it to work.  You should just have to
> submit a
> > pull request to ros/rosdistro for the new verslon.
>
> Thanks, that's encouraging. I really hope that fix will work. When it
> appeared to fail, I was running out of ideas. But, I had missed one of
> the steps in the release process without realizing it.
>
> I hope camera1394-1.9.1 does fix that problem. I've been unable to
> reproduce the failure any other way, and there was very little
> debugging information in the console output. Assuming the incorrect
> reference to roslib is indeed the bug, I can understand why it works
> on my development system because roslib is already installed there.
>
> But, isn't this the sort of error pre-release tests are intended to
> find? Why did that also succeed? Is roslib getting installed there by
> mistake or as a side-effect of some other package? How much does the
> pre-release build differ from the binarydeb build?
>

The prerelease does a lot more than the debbuilds.  It is doing the same as
a devel job does, building and testing from source.  And afterwords it
builds and tests from source all packages which depend on the requested
package.  There's another test we could run which would actually test the
debbuild process, but the debbuild process does not install the tests so
you cannot run the tests after installing the debs which is not as helpful.

It's relatively simple to test the debian build process.  Checkout the
branch specific to your current platform in the gbp.  Make sure you have
installed all the dependencies listed in the debian/control file.  And call
dpkg-buildpackage with -uc -us (to skip signing).  The deb files and
.changes will pop out in the directory above.

git checkout debian/ros-hydro-camera1394_1.9.1-0_precise
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

Tully


>
> --
>  joq
>
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