ktp meta package

[Harald Sitter]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Scarlett Clark <sgclark at kubuntu.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 01:34:07 PM Harald Sitter wrote:
>> we just noticed that meta-kde-telepathy was not uploaded to the PPA.
>> kindly note that the metapackage is pretty much required to make sure
>> the user gets a coherent telepathy stack and shouldn't be forgotten
>> when doing an upload (which is of course extra tricky because it
>> doesn't have a tarball ...)
>>
>> I would rather love to have the packages inter-dependencies fixed
>> properly such that the meta becomes obsolete or short of that have the
>> meta move into one of the actual KTP source packages to prevent
>> forgetting to upload. no time though...
>
> Forget? no, more like had no clue there was a metapackage that had to be
> uploaded with no tar, how exactly does one do that anyway? is there a list of
> these somewhere for the misinformed such as myself?

I do not have the faintest, looking at
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/?q=pkg-kde/applications is what one
does I suppose.

It's a native package, so the package is the tar, so it has a tar,
it's just not a release tar :P Which is pretty much why I don't like
this kind of meta thing, it's entirely implicit and easily falls
through the cracks.

HS