Sponsorship/Review for package "karlyriceditor"

[Martin Steghöfer]

El 26/05/14 21:12, Felipe Sateler ha escrit:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Martin Steghöfer <martin at steghoefer.eu> wrote:
>> I tried it once, following the instructions on
>> https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit, but decided against using it. It
>> didn't simplify my work, but instead cluttered up my repository with the
>> upstream source files. I don't get the point of having upstream files in the
>> repository, if you're not allowed to touch them directly (only via patches).
>
> But you can generate the patch using git:
>
> % git checkout -b my-branch
> % vim src/file1.c
> % git commit -a -m "Very important patch"
> % git checkout master
> % git format-patch my-branch
> % mv 0000-* debian/patches/my-patch.patch
> % echo  my-patch.patch > debian/patches/series
>
> The patch-queue tool in git-buildpackage can be useful too (gbp-pq).

True that, before my post I hadn't seen gbp-pq yet (the Debian wiki page 
[1] about git packaging is a bit tenuous). In fact, after I wrote that, 
I gave gpb-pq a try (see latest commits on git [2] [3]) and kinda liked 
it, so I adopted it.

I don't like the patch output format of gbp-pq though [3]. It forces me 
to use the "From" + "Subject" + "unstructured text" style instead of 
"Author" + "Description", it uglifies the "From" value with encoding 
information (isn't the whole file UTF-8 by default?) and it's very 
verbose (Do I really want statistics about the number of modifications 
within my patch file?). I guess it's more standard (UNIX mailbox 
format), but it surely makes things less readable. Maybe there are some 
tuning possibilities that I haven't found yet, it probably uses 
git-format-patch internally, which is somewhat customizable.

But for the patches the workflow is nice - it can't be much worse than 
manual quilt management anyway. At least some reward for dragging the 
upstream source around and having "git-buildpackage" complain about 
dirty working directories all the time!

Cheers,
Martin

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit
[2] 
https://github.com/martin-steghoefer/debian-karlyriceditor/commit/d48ccd50
[3] 
https://github.com/martin-steghoefer/debian-karlyriceditor/commit/f02325de