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

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Tollef,

Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> writes:
>> 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.
I do think it does. At least the way I think manifests itself much
better in git-buildpackage than in gitpkg.

In any case, I don’t think the minor differences in how the tools work
is worth using the non-popular tool. Both tools allow you to do roughly
the same thing, with each of them having some things easier, some things
harder.

>> 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.
Not in a form that is compatible with the Debian patch-tracker or
someone who is not familiar with how gitpkg works.

So, again, I’m asking whether I can go ahead and propose a plan on how
to switch to git-buildpackage? I’d really like to see this happening.

-- 
Best regards,
Michael