On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 09:25:05PM +0900, haha wang wrote:
<div><div>Hi, everybody.</div><div>� � � � I am a newbie to debian-hurd development and want to contribute to this project. After reading the development guide at <a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian" rel="noopener noreferrer"
target="_blank">
https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian</a>, I decide to fix a broken package found at the recommended page <a href="
https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/out_of_date2.txt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">
https://
people.debian.org/~sthibault/out_of_date2.txt</a> named `libtorrent`.</div><div>�</div><div>� � � After I download the package source and try to build without any modifications under the debian hurd running in qemu (<strong>debian-hurd-20210219.img</
strong>), �I got the following error.</div><div>�</div><div>� � � ```<div>� �socket_fd.cc: In member function 'bool torrent::SocketFd::set_priority(torrent::SocketFd::priority_type)':</div><div>� �socket_fd.cc:78:43: error: 'IPV6_TCLASS' was not declared
in this scope; did you mean 'IPOPT_CLASS'?</div></div><div>� � ```</div><div>�</div><div>� �and it matches with what that page said.</div><div>�</div><div>� I also try to build that package under my debian desktop(Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid x86_64)
and it got no errors. After a quick search, i have found linux defined the `IPV6_TCLASS` macro at `bits/in.h` as follows:</div><div>�</div><div>� ```</div><div>� #define IPV6_TCLASS 67</div><div>� ```</div><div>�</div><div>So that, I modify the `
configure.ac` to add a conditional compilation when it detects the host operating system is hurd based, along with macro definition at the `Makefile.am` found at `src/net/`. The patch file is attached at the end of this email.</div><div>�</div><div>But I
have some questions:</div><div>�</div><div>1. Should I only load that patch file? Is it enough? Should I provided a change file?</div><div>2. If the patch file is accepted, how it can be merged to the official deb package?</div><div>3. Should I add some
other description information to the patch file?</div><div>4. Can somebody tell me how can I become a debian package maintainer? Is there any detailed and practical guides?</div><div>�</div><div>Thank you!</div><div>�</div><div>---</div><div>hahawang</
<div>�</div><div><div>--- a/configure.ac</div><div>+++ b/configure.ac</div><div>@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@</div><div>AC_INIT(libtorrent, 0.13.8, [email protected])</div><div>�</div><div>+AC_CANONICAL_HOST</div><div>+</div><div>+build_hurd=no</div><div>
+</div><div>+case "${host_os}" in</div><div>+ gnu*)</div><div>+ build_hurd=yes</div><div>+ ;;</div><div>+esac</div><div>+</div><div>+AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_HURD], [test "$build_hurd" = "yes"])</div><div>+</div><div>LT_INIT([disable-static])</div><div>�</
<div>dnl Find a better way to do this</div><div>--- a/src/net/Makefile.am</div><div>+++ b/src/net/Makefile.am</div><div>@@ -26,3 +26,7 @@</div><div>throttle_node.h</div><div>�</div><div>AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(srcdir) -I$(srcdir)/.. -I$(top_srcdir)</div><
+</div><div>+if BUILD_HURD</div><div>+AM_CPPFLAGS += -DBUILD_HURD</div><div>+endif</div><div>--- a/src/net/socket_fd.cc</div><div>+++ b/src/net/socket_fd.cc</div><div>@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@</div><div>#include "torrent/exceptions.h"</div><div>#include "
socket_fd.h"</div><div>�</div><div>+#ifdef BUILD_HURD</div><div>+#define IPV6_TCLASS 67</div><div>+#endif</div><div>+</div><div>namespace torrent {<!-- --></div><div>�</div><div>inline void</div></div></div>
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