Adopting jack-tools

[Arnout Engelen]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:43:51PM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:40:44PM +0200, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> > Anyway, we could use both:
> >  - git to store the packaging
> >  - darcs to retrieve the original tarball, for example by putting a
> > get-orig-source target in debian/rules
> 
> Sounds great. 

I'll try it out for a bit - I fear mixing git and darcs will be confusing and
we'll lose the elegance of the darcs-buildpackage tools, but I'll have a look 
:).

> Last time I had a look at jack-tools, it contained several
> different upstream tarballs from different upstream "projects".
> 
> If there'd be an "update all via darcs", this would be handy.

Upstream doesn't seem to supply any releases at all anymore, it's now simply 
a Darcs repo with all the tools in it. Which works great.


Arnout