[SCM] Debian packaging for jack-audio-connection-kit branch, master.jackd2, updated. debian/1.9.4+svn3842-2-41-g15d16a4

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 20:59:02 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>>Jonas, perhaps you answer these questions:
>>
>> - do you commit the quilt control directory .pc/?
>>
>> - do you commit the tree with patches applied?
>>
>> - if not, is everyone expected to run 'quilt pop -a' before committing
>>  changes to the tree?
>
> So there is your answer to the questions: No - I commit unapplied
> patches, not applied ones or quilt noise!

Hm, but requires additional manual overhead to make sure that you don't
commit noise. Does this really make packaging easier then?

> I use git-buildpackage, not topgit!

I don't understand this comment. Topgit managing each "change" as a
branch (AFAIUI).

>> Sorry, I still think this mode of operation is pretty silly. I'd much
>> prefer if the patches were maintained by git-buildpackage as proper
>> git commits instead of text files. Upon source package generation,
>> these commits need to be exported as quilt patches of course. This
>> way, updating to a new upstream version would use git's conflict
>> resolution mechanisms instead of quilt (which can only merge 2-way,
>> git can do a 3-way merge).
>>
>> I guess other VCS systems like hg or bzr at least try something in
>> that directions (although I have to admit that I didn't follow the
>> latest developments there).
>
> You are free to find git-buildpackage silly, and prefer different VCSes
> altogether.

This is not what I said, and granted, I shouldn't have used the word
'silly' but a less strong word. I think that Format 3.0 does not work
well with git-buildpackage. At least, git-buildpackage should integrate
more with dpkg so that unnecessary "commit noise" is avoided.

> Am I free to not find it silly?  As part of this team?

I'd very much prefer to work on a consistent set of packages. Having
some packages maintained in this and some in another way leads
individuals to look and care only after a subset of our team's packages.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4