Switching KDE packaging to git

[Mark Purcell]

On Monday 12 July 2010 08:06:39 Fathi Boudra wrote:
> > My only request is that we document the workflow in something like:
> > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-kde/kde-extras/README
> >
> > This is so we can get the workflow documented and give those of us git newbies over the line.
> 
> Qt contains a README.source:
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-kde/qt4-x11.git;a=blob;f=debian/README.source
> 
> It could be used (and improved) for the workflow documentation.

Seems like a lot of options and moving parts for the maintenance of kde-extras packages.

In kde-extras we generally have new upstream releases with sometimes a handful of Debian specific patches, sometimes pulling something early from upstream.

svn-buildpackage manages this use case without lots of command line foo, without manual extraction of the upstream tarball or manually extracting  the tarball into the repository.

Am I missing something, or is git too powerful for the use case we have with kde-extras?

Mark
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