RFS: emerillon

[Andreas Henriksson]

On tor, 2010-04-08 at 22:10 -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
[...]
> Keeping in mind the (off-topic) discussion on bug 575384, the
> rationale for having this retrieved from git is that it simplifies (at
> least for me) maintaining and regularly building the package, if
> nothing else because I am already using the same or very similar
> recipes in other packages, including in helping maintaining
> NetworkManager in Ubuntu.
[...]

I suggested that you look at gnome-pkg-tools "get-orig-source" rules.
Did you? 

That target normally fetches the real orig tarballs but can also be used
to fetch from git as far as I could see when quickly looking at the cdbs
script (by just setting DEB_UPSTREAM_GIT_REV).

I do understand that you might want to easily be able to build local
test versions straight from git for your testing, but these should IMHO
not be uploaded as official Debian packages.

I don't understand what advantage your "never fetch the real orig
tarball" rules has over gnome-pkg-tools, please explain.

(As I see it, with gnome-pkg-tools you get the best of both. Easy
building from git and fetching of real tarballs for official uploads.)

(I don't see that you're doing this for all *your* packages in *ubuntu*
as an explanation and strong reason to go with your way over already
established ways of handling this used by *many* maintainers inside
*debian*.)

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Regards,
Andreas Henriksson