git-dpm vs gbp-pq: new upstream and patch refresh (long)

[Martin Pitt]

Hey all,

Simon McVittie [2014-09-05 16:05 +0100]:
> >> It might also be worth noting that the systemd maintainers switched from
> >> git-dpm to gbp-pq recently (between 204 and 208, I think), so they
> >> obviously didn't think git-dpm was the better option.

I don't think anyone in pkg-systemd@ has looked at git-dpm yet. In
fact we switched from gitpkg to standard git-buildpackage. gbp-pq is a
local development tool which greatly eases patch handling especially
for new upstream versions, but as that's not exposed in the official
git, but is only a glorified way of maintaining the debian/patches
quilt series locally that shouldn't affect other workflows.

gitpkg is rather complicated to use and set up, only about 3 people in
Debian know how it works properly, and it makes it really hard to
track a set of changes against trunk over time (i. e. the equivalent
of a quilt series, or stacked git).

So I'm not sure where "switched from git-dpm" came from?

Martin

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