git-packaging workflows

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Felipe Sateler (2013-04-08 06:56:51)
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> > Quoting Reinhard Tartler (2013-04-06 09:32:04)
> >> Recently, Russ' blog post was echoed on http://planet.debian.org:
> >>
> >> http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2013-04/001.html
> >>
> >> In that post, he describes how to combine both the "import tarball" 
> >> and the "have upstream history" available in the upstream packaging 
> >> branch. AFAIUI, the heavy work is implemented in git-buildpackage's 
> >> --upstream-vcs-tag <tag> option.
> >>
> >> While that option is news to me, I wonder if maybe anyone else 
> >> already experiments with this? Does the team feel that making it 
> >> mandatory for our package would be beneficial and appropriate?
> >
> > I have (way more complex) practiced that for a few years for Sugar 
> > packages.  Now that it has become dead simply to do with 
> > git-buildpackage I wholeheartedly welcome mandating it - but only 
> > for those of our upstreams that themselves use git, obviously.
> 
> I suppose fixing the history would be too time consuming? So the 
> history would remain as imported tarballs?

Not sure what you mean, Felipe.


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