[tryton-debian] tarball compression

[Mathias Behrle]

* Raphael Hertzog: " Re: [tryton-debian] tarball compression" (Wed, 29 Jan 2014
  17:18:08 +0100):

> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> > > > Upstream uses python standards and setuptools misses this feature. 
> > > 
> > > Nothing that can't be fixed, isn't it?
> > 
> > I don't get your notion here how to fix?
> 
> Someone can surely contribute XZ support to setuptools, no? I'm not saying
> you should do this but my point was that it was possible to fix things
> at the correct layer, instead of working around it at the Debian level.

Agreed. But sometimes you are better off to use some better approach than to
wait for a slow upstream.
 
> > > Don't revert for current packages. Just start using pristine upstream
> > > tarballs for every new upstream version that you package.
> > 
> > I will use it for Tryton 3.2 to have a clean cut. For the (non-official)
> > backports I won't change my tool chain.
> >  
> > > Out of curiosity, what are those changes ? What's the workflow that you
> > > are using ?
> > 
> > I am using more or less the git stuff workflow [1][2].
> 
> What does it bring compared to equivalent tools (that are in more
> widespread use) in git-buildpackage ?

Generally it is much less bloated than git-buildpackage. The usage count is not
a strong parameter for quality. Remember: there are more Windows users than
Debian users. It just gives me the tools and flexibility I need.
 
> I looked at
> file:///usr/share/doc/git-stuff/packaging-workflow-with-git-stuff.html and
> it seems to me that git-upstream-* is similar to git-import-orig (except
> that it diverges uselessly on some points, so that git-buildpackage fails
> to identify the correct orig.tar if you don't specify the right
> --git-compression...).

git-stuff utilities are just more flexible on this point.

> git-checkout-branches is replaced by gbp-clone/gbp-pull

No. git-checkout-branches is meant to check out all remote branches.

> and git-debian-changelog by git-dch.

It is a wrapper over git-dch.
 
> BTW, it would be nice if you could add debian/gbp.conf in all the
> repositories setting debian-branch=debian so that I don't have to remember
> it.

It is on my TODO list and I am still pondering (for me it is (until now) not the
preferred build tool).

I would propose gbp.conf to contain:

-----------------
[DEFAULT]
debian-branch = debian
pristine-tar = True

[git-buildpackage]
export-dir = ../build-area/
ignore-new = True
# Use this for orig.tar.xz tarballs, subject to change in the future
compression = xz
-----------------

Does this meet your expectations?

Cheers


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