[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] torbirdy 0.1.4
intrigeri
intrigeri at debian.org
Mon Oct 12 14:43:42 UTC 2015
Hi,
u wrote (07 Oct 2015 18:01:57 GMT) :
> intrigeri:
>> u wrote (30 Sep 2015 16:41:28 GMT) :
>>> > Where is the documentation for that layout?
>> file:///usr/share/doc/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.intro.html#GBP.REPOSITORY
> Thanks for providing that link.
> It states
> "You're *completely free* to pick any repository layout and the branch
> names above are only gbp's defaults. They can be changed at any point in
> time and you can work with an arbitrary number of branches."
> The master branch being used by upstream, I opted for the creation of
> the debian/sid branch, as described here:
> file:///usr/share/doc/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.import.html#GBP.BRANCH.NAMING
> By default gbp uses one branch to keep the Debian packaging called
> master and a branch to keep the upstream packaging called upstream.
> "This layout is simple to get started but fails short if one needs to
> maintain several versions of the package at the same time. Therefore the
> following layout is recommended:
> debian/<release>
> the Debian packaging for a release jessie, wheezy, sid or experimental."
Thanks for putting it very clearly. I'm personally a bit torn, since
I like this (~DEP-14) layout, but as said earlier in this thread
I also like consistency between team-maintained packages, and I won't
have time to make it so we have both.
> Does this suit our needs to sponsor an upload?
I don't intend to block on that.
> I've built & tested the package on debian/sid and debian/jessie.
Thanks for you work!
Cheers,
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intrigeri
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