[Pkg-shadow-devel] [PATCH 00/11] pkg-shadow support subordinate ids with user namespaces

Serge E. Hallyn serge at hallyn.com
Wed Jun 5 12:02:17 UTC 2013


Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle at debian.org):
> Quoting Serge E. Hallyn (serge at hallyn.com):
> 
> > at github.com/hallyn/shadow is the simple, dumb result of doing a
> > 'git svn clone'.  It kept the svn branch directory layout which is
> > not ideal.  However, since there are different branches for upstream,
> > debian, and www, converting to git branches isn't entirely straightforward.
> > Should we
> > 
> >  (a) turn this into three git trees, with proper git branches
> >      in each, so that for instance upstream/tags/4.1.5.1/* would be in
> >      (tagged) branch 4.1.5.1 of shadow-upstream/, and upstream/trunk/* would
> >      be master branch of shadow-upstream,
> >  (b) keep the svn style directory layout,
> >  (c) keep one tree with one named branch for every branch that exists in
> >      any of the trees, and for instance shadow/upstream/ would be empty for
> >      branch 'etch' (which only exists for debian)?
> > or
> >  (d) do something more clever?
> 
> I'd prefer option a). The plan should indeed to have a clearer
> separation between upstream development (where I expect more people to
> get involved, maybe not particularly interested in Debian packaging)
> and Debian packaging.
> 
> Not sure about the www branch. Not sure indeed that it deserves to be
> kept (hasn't bene updated for years as far as I know).

Ok thanks I'll go that route.



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