[Android-tools-devel] src:repo Should Use git-import-orig Rather Than Merging Upstream

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think that approach is nice and simple.  I'm fine with switching to it
for all of the android-tools packages with a minor change: stick with
the upstream tarball format, e.g. .tar.gz, to keep it simple.  I'm
working on getting googlesource.com to make reproducible tarballs, so
that every time someone downloads the tarball, it'll be exactly the same.

Currently, I think the only differences are the timestamps, so this
should be easy to achieve.

.hc

殷啟聰:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> When I was about to package a newer version of repo, I found the
> package on Alioth directly merges upstream in order to to fetch
> source. Since Gitlies is able to download a tagged tree as a tarball,
> src:repo should simply use git-import-orig to import source. This
> approach is simpler and won't pull upstream Git logs into Alioth.
> 
> Take a look at the get-orig-source rule in debian/rules of my AOSP
> packages, for example
> <http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/android-tools/android-platform-external-libselinux.git/tree/debian/rules>.
> 
> Regards,
> Kai-Chung Yan
>