dropping everything but the debian dir

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:23:21AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> hi,
> 
> as you've probably just seen, i fixed a bunch of open security issues
> (triaged about 40, fixed 20, found the other 20 already fixed, and there
> are probably about 40 more issues i didn't get to). anyway, with the
> introduction of a patch system and since the upstream files are
> maintained in git, every commit is essentially duplicated now.  i think
> it would make things a lot easier and cleaner if the upstream files were
> dropped from the repo and just the debian dir maintained.  what do you
> think?

I think it makes it even more cumbersome to maintain without the
upstream source in the repository. What I do on some other packages is
to have the patches source in the repo, and refresh debian/patches
using a script before marking a release. In such scenarios, it's easier
to have all patches applied on a separate branch where you can just run
git format-patch. The branch is rebased on top of each new upstream and
then merged in master again. It makes the history harder to follow, but
makes the workflow somehow better imho.

Mike