Merge with pkg-icecast-devel

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 05:17:05PM +0200, Alessio Treglia wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> How did you plan to handle old SVN packaging history?
>>
>> It is not a trick question - I do have some ideas myself - several 
>> approaches that I have tried on other packages, but none of them 
>> without flaws, so I am genuinely curious how you'd do it.
>
>In the past, I followed the instructions found here (+ some minor 
>adjustments): 
>http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git#ConvertaSVNAliothrepositorytoGit
>
>I remember that it was a success, I can pick a package and do a test if 
>you agree.

Wauw - that is smarter than I've ever done before.  Sure, go ahead - and 
no, you need not do a test, just roll them all like that, please!

And please do use signed tags and pristine-tar as much as possible.

Actually, one improvement I'd suggest over the one documented:

After the "initial upstream branch" commit close to the end, but before 
force-merging with master, please try apply all but newest upstream 
tarballs fetched using debsnap with "git-import-orig --no-merge".

I say "try" because I've never done so myself and am uncertain if it 
works, but if it does, we then are easier able to correlate not only our 
debian subdir but also upstream changes.


  - Jonas

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