[pkg-apparmor] Bug#888244: apparmor: Convert quilt patch series to per-topic subdirectories managed by gbp-pq

[Steve Beattie]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 03:13:21PM +0100, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi maintainers of src:apparmor in Ubuntu,
> 
> [keeping Simon in Cc because I suspect he's interested in this topic
> for Apertis — whose fork of Ubuntu's src:apparmor is already
> maintained in Git.]
> 
> intrigeri wrote (2018-01-29):
> > [explicitly Cc'ing the Ubuntu maintainers; if you missed the beginning
> > of this thread, for context see https://bugs.debian.org/888244]
> 
> > I've prepared 2 PoC branches, both hosted in the Git repository on
> > Salsa where the Debian packaging now lives, and that would happily
> > welcome the Ubuntu packaging as well:
> 
> >  - debian/gbp-pq:
> >    https://salsa.debian.org/apparmor-team/apparmor/tree/debian/gbp-pq/debian/patches
> 
> >    … that I'd like to merge into debian/master, ideally once we reach an
> >    agreement with the Ubuntu maintainers.
> 
> >  - ubuntu/gbp-pq:
> >    https://salsa.debian.org/apparmor-team/apparmor/tree/ubuntu/gbp-pq/debian/patches
> 
> >    … that I'd like to merge into ubuntu/master if the Ubuntu
> >    maintainers are happy with it. I've done my best to preserve the
> >    current Ubuntu delta on that branch but you should double-check
> >    before uploading :)
> 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> Ping? I'd like to merge this in Debian soon but one of the main goal
> is to ease Debian/Ubuntu/derivatives' maintainers job; if this does
> not get buy in from you folks and you don't want to do this change in
> Ubuntu, doing this on Debian would actually be counter-productive.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to ensure we do this switch in
> a coordinated way and in time for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?

Sorry, I've been swamped coping with Meltdown/Spectre. I took a brief
look at the topic git branches and it seems like a modest enough
organizational improvement to me[1]. What would need to happen on the
Ubuntu side to go forward?

[1] At the end of the day, it's still quilt patches checked into a VCS.
    But I'm not aware of any VCS that's good at keeping a patch series
    or even multiple topic branches that aren't accepted (yet) upstream,
    especially if you want to track the history of how individual
    patches developed over time.

-- 
Steve Beattie
<sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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