git-packaging workflows

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed Apr 17 01:27:20 UTC 2013


On 04/06/2013 03:32 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 

It sounds very promising, but I think its too soon to mandate it.  I think
people should all try it and then report back on experience with it.  If no
one hits major hurdles, then mandate it.

I'm going to try my first package in this style:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/python-qrcode.git

.hc



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