[Freedombox-discuss] How to handle debian packaging of withsqlite i git?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (2013-09-11 07:48:11)
> Hi.  On IRC, we have agreed that Bdale Garbee, Jonas Smedegaard, 
> Petter Reinholdtsen, Piotr Ożarowski and Tzafrir Cohen will be listed 
> as maintainers of the freedombox related packages we upload, and last 
> night I uploaded the first, withsqlite, based on the content of <URL: 
> https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/withsqlite/tree/debian-packaging
> >.

Great work!

Not sure it is sensible to have me as uploader, though, as I am not 
comfortable using the packaging style involving short-form dh sequencer.  
Fine with me if we instead use CDBS with classic-style debhelper (I am 
happy doing the conversion), but I can imagine that being similarly an 
issue for others, so guess best is simply that I step out of the loop.

(please beware, Petter, that I didn't confirm on irc to be listed as 
maintainer because of this dh/cdbs issue - I am not criticizing here, 
just mentioning because possibly others that you promote also haven't 
confirmed for whatever reason)


> But for git-buildpackage to work well, I believe it is best to fetch a 
> tarball from github and import it using git-import-orig.  This will 
> create a repository detached from the upstream git history and the 
> branches floating around.  Is there some way to both import a tarball 
> and pull from upstream and contributors using git?

git-import-orig --upstream-vcs-tag=<tag/commit> <tarball>


 - Jonas

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