jackd2 ready to roll

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:00:18PM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:53:19PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

>> In short: I would very much like to volunteer to repackage the 
>> current vcs-tarball as pristine-tarball + vcs-patch.  Is that 
>> acceptable?
>
>Different approach: make us the jackd2 repository. ;) So we simply use 
>git, wildly patch whatever we want, no need to wait for upstream to 
>apply my patches and pull from their svn repo from time to time. ;)
>
>This way, we can ship the extracted (and checked) waf code, strip *.dll 
>from the package and all the other tweaks that will be required.
>
>Might sound completely crazy, probably because it isi, but it surely 
>has its advantages... ;)

It certainly has its advantages if upstream also use Git to then 
maintain upstream and our branches in a single Git.  For packaging 
development.

But it still makes best sense to base our final releases on pristine 
tarballs (or not pristine, if upstream tarballs are not DFSG-free).


Is it ok with you that I repackage from the current vcs-tarball to 
pristine-(or-repackaged)-tarball + vcs-patch?


We can then _also_ extend to track upstream Git as well, but let's do 
one thing at a time.  You can have a look at e.g. "debcheckout sugar" 
and read its debian/README.source for a suggestion on how to do it.  Or 
ask if that file is not easy to comprehend, and I'd be happy to 
elaborate :-)



  - Jonas

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