[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Switching the git repository to git-buildpackage

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Martin Pitt 

> Hey Michael,
> 
> Michael Stapelberg [2014-02-12  8:38 +0100]:
> > Myself, I have been frustrated with gitpkg numerous times, but that’s
> > mostly because of a lack of experience with it, I think.
> 
> Heh, amen. But indeed this is quite a bit of a blocker for
> contributions.

Then we should make it so people can usefully contribute with it.  I
don't think git-buildpackage supports our workflow properly.

> > Tollef, Michael, what do you think? May I go ahead and come up with a
> > plan to migrate the git repository to git-buildpackage in time for the
> > 208 upload?
> 
> Would that also entail moving to a proper 3.0 (quilt) layout? As it is
> now, it is impossible to see which changes the Debian package has
> against upstream, grouped by hunks which conceptually belong together
> (i. e. what pretty much every other package in the archive does).

It does that already.

> Unrelated:
> This reminds me, I still have some fixes for Debian
> (http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/tmp/systemd/) laying around since
> November, which Tollef and I never quite managed to get through. I'll
> probably just start sending bug reports for them.

Sounds good, and yeah, sorry about dropping that on the floor. :-/

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