[request-tracker-maintainers] RFS: libmodule-install-rtx-perl

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 08:04:05PM +0900, Satoru KURASHIKI wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Thank you for reviewing;
> 
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> > so this isn't quite right yet.
> >
> > I noticed you didn't follow my suggestion to merge the changes from the
> > upstream tarball into the dpkg branch. AFAICT this is the only sane
> > way to fix this kind of problem when trying commits from the upstream
> > repository.
> 
> So, we should have 'upstream' branch which we import upstream tarballs,
> leaving upstream's 'master' branch, right?
> # after all it is meaningless to have packaging stuff inside upstream
> repo... :-(

Yes, exactly.

> Anyway, I understand that my try to fill the gap between repos and
> tarballs had failed.
> 
> > Could you have a look a the upstream and dom/dpkg branches I've pushed to
> > see what I mean and whether you agree, and let me know whether you're
> > happy for me to upload or whether you think we should be doing
> > it differently?
> 
> No problem, please go the way above, thanks.
> And I will follow with other rtx- packages soon.

Thanks, will do. There are probably more optimised routes to including
upstream commits in the debian packaging branch, but I'm not too
familiar with those.

Cheers,
Dominic.