[Debian-ha-maintainers] libqb is ready

[Richard B Winters]

On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 22:34 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  > I don't understand cloning a repository and all of its history -> when
> > we are supposed to be packaging using the release tarball anyhow -> not
> > the commit used for the tarball release...no?
> 
> It makes it easier to cherry-pick upstream commits and so on. The 
> various git packaging tools let you say "this is the upstream tarball 
> that corresponds to release X" and suchlike. It also helps you have a 
> coherent history in your repo.

I get that it helps make it easier to cherry pick commits and patch the
source - where I felt there was contradiction was in stating I couldn't
manually prep the orig.tar.gz file -> yet am being advised to import a
repository rather than a tarball and allow git tools (or myself) to
manually prep the .orig.tar.gz file...

> > So is Github.com...did you mean to imply something other than this? I
> > only suggest using Github.com because of all the advanced features we
> > could be taking advantage of - which Alioth does not have.
> 
> Alioth is free as in free software, github is not. So we should use 
> alioth for Debian things (or other free software tools), not github.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthew
> 

Ah -

So since we can't get our hands on Github.com's source we shouldn't use
its free service for Debian? Yet we'll gladly import an upstream
repository from Github.com and put a watch file looking at Github.com
into our packages?...I don't really get it - we're not packaging
Github.com, but source obtained from it - yet being the newbie here I
will not argue it -> will scratch the Github.com repo and only use
Alioth for our packages then.

Thanks for the reply Matthew :)

Best,



-- 
Rik
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