[Openstack-devel] Branches and tags in your upstream swift3 github repository

[Thomas Goirand]

On 11/15/2012 11:14 AM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:31:37 +0800
> Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> We are packaging Folsom Swift for Debian, and noticed that the S3 API is
>> now packaged separately. So we started to work on your Debian repository.
>>
>> The problem is that your github repository contains no branches, and no
>> tags. So it makes it very difficult for us to work with it.
>>
>> In our packaging workflow, we use Git tags for our debian/watch file,
>> and for creating the orig.tar.xz. On the contrary, packaging people from
>> Ubuntu use the released tar.gz.
>>
>> So, it would be really nice if you could start using git tags (with
>> bonus point if you use signed tags with "git tag -s", and if your pgp
>> key is in any web of trust, even better if it's signed by some Debian
>> Developers).
> 
> Any preference for version numbers? e.g. the major number matches with
> the major number of Swift.

Like 1.7.x.x for swift3 would run with swift 1.7.y.y? Yes, that'd be
perfect! Thanks for your quick reply.

Cheers,

Thomas