[Pkg-gnupg-maint] GPA maintenance

[Eric Dorland]

* Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg at fifthhorseman.net) wrote:
> On 09/01/2014 11:16 PM, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > * Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg at fifthhorseman.net) wrote:
> > [snip] 
> >> PS i think it might make for a cleaner collaborative process in the
> >> future to avoid pushing changes to debian/changelog until we're ready to
> >> release -- then we can use git-dch to assemble the full debian/changelog
> >> before releasing the debian package.  I'm not suggesting that we revise
> >> the existing work, but that maybe that will be smoother going forward to
> >> avoid debian/changelog edit collisions.  what do you think?
> > 
> > I've so far been firmly in the camp of using debcommit and having the
> > changelog get carried along with the change. How big a problem are
> > changelog conflicts?
> 
> I don't actually feel that strongly about it.  Debcommit's approach of
> filtering the changelog by author probably helps avoid the conflicts,
> since each author's items end up in a different place in the file.
> 
> I'm happy to go with the debcommit workflow (that is, updating
> debian/changelog with each commit) as long as we're willing to
> reevaluate it later if anyone presents any serious problems with it.

Sounds good to me. Any one else prefer it one way or the other?

-- 
Eric Dorland <eric at kuroneko.ca>
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