[Pkg-samba-maint] Use git-buildpackage for Samba 4

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:15:28PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > If so, I don't have any particular objections on my own behalf, I only worry
> > about whether switching to git will have an impact on collaborative
> > maintenance of the Debian package in the long term (i.e., once printing is
> > done and we want to start switching everything from samba 3).
> This is still some time away (at least a year I think). Is there
> anything that makes git harder to use for collaborative maintenance
> compared to Subversion?

The fact that svn is part of the existing knowledge set for a number of
developers, and git isn't (yet).  I also have yet to find a good
best-practices guide for git that makes me comfortable that I know what's
what with this tool.  Jerry's wiki page is a good start in the case of Samba
(http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_Git_for_Samba_Development), but on
the whole it feels to me like git gives rather a few too many options.

Some people describe git as "simple", but this seems to mean only "the
design and implementation is simple and you're responsible for sorting out
the higher-level stuff in wetware because the tools are going to give you no
more structure than 'rm' does".

Just my impressions.  Everyone seems to agree that things are getting
better, it's just a question of how quickly.

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