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

Barry Warsaw barry at debian.org
Fri Sep 5 17:43:23 BST 2014


Hi Martin, thanks for the information.

On Sep 05, 2014, at 05:18 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:

>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).

I kept hearing about git-debcherry at DC14.  AFAICT, this is a committed, but
not yet released part of gitpkg.  But it sounds like from your experience,
gitpkg may not be appropriate for the debian-python team.

Cheers,
-Barry




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