[Pkg-gnupg-maint] documenting the team on the wiki

[Eric Dorland]

* Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg at fifthhorseman.net) wrote:
> Hi Eric--
> 
> On 09/01/2014 01:47 AM, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > Nice! Should we encourage the use of git-pbuilder as well for
> > consistent builds? 
> 
> I don't use git-pbuilder regularly myself -- i'm under the impression
> that it needs root privileges, which i normally don't want to have for
> the user accounts that i build packages under.   Is that wrong?  I'm
> happy to learn useful tools.

Regular pbuilder (and cowbuilder) requires root but pbuilder-uml
doesn't. I've never used pbuilder-uml but I assume it's as easy as the
other ones.
 
> > Also, I think we should mention "wrap-and-sort"
> > because it's great and I didn't know about it.
> 
> yes, that sounds like a great idea.  I've subscribed to the wiki page so
> that i'll be mailed notifications when it changes.  I encourage others
> to do so too.
> 
> Eric, do you want to make those changes directly?

Sure thing.

> >> PS gnupg and gnupg-doc are the only remaining svn→git conversions.  the
> >> git repos are present but unpopulated at the moment, waiting for
> >> Someone™ to populate them with a good git tree. :)
> >  
> > I'm on it.
> 
> I don't want to step on your toes, but i just realized i've got a
> git-svn-converted version of gnupg already available on my local
> machine.  shall i go ahead and push it?

I'm about to upload the version I made. I did a bunch of manual
cleanup of tags and tried to preserve the other branches in case we
need to make anymore stable or oldstable releases. So if you did that
then by all means go ahead :) Otherwise I'll be done shortly.


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