Re: ITP: mercurial-buildpackage (for those who care about Mercurial)
I demand that Jens Peter Secher may or may not have written...
> 2009/11/21 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>:
>> Jens Peter Secher <jps@debian.org> writes:
>>> As I see it, there is no need for using Mercurial Queues (mq) with
>>> mercurial-buildpackage because dpkg-source format "3.0 (quilt)" has
>>> the same purpose as mq, namely to wrap around quilt to achieve
>>> automatic patch handling.
>> Not quite. The Mecurial Queues are under version control. [...]
*May* be under version control. If so, it's a separate repository; and if you
want it to be public, you have to push it separately (I don't see equivalents
of 'push', 'pull', 'in' and 'out' there short of using --cwd).
[snip]
> Hmm, the debian/patches/ are also under version control.
That directory *will* be, yes.
> I am afraid I still do not see a real difference...
It looks like something like the following will work:
* make .hg/patches a symlink to debian/patches;
* add debian/patches/status and debian/patches/guards to .hgignore;
* require that .hg/patches/series is quilt-compatible (no guards);
* require that .hg/patches/guards is empty or non-existent;
* deapply patches at build time ("hg qpop --all"; abort build on failure).
(No, I don't have a patch for this.)
>> All in a way mercurial users are use to.
> ...except for the above (assuming Mercurial really are used to MQ).
I've made some use of that where I use mercurial; better that than quilt,
given the integration into mercurial.
>> That means people have to use quilt and mercurial. With mercurisl
>> queues you would have only mercurial and the quilt part is hidden.
Agreed.
>> I'm not saying mercurial queues should be forced onto the user but I
>> think it would be nice to support them.
I'm not sure that quilt should be forced onto the user unless it's properly
integrated into the VCS; and where the VCS has its own patch queue
management, that should be preferred.
> Sure, but I do not know how to do that at the moment. :-)
See above (probably). :-)
[snip]
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