Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage
Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 22:40 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I think the way forward for Git-maintained packages is the 3.0 (git)
>> format, but changed to ship a bundle. That way, relevant branches and
>> history can be included, and Git is fairly space-efficient so the
>> additional cost of doing so isn't that bad.
> Why go through the hassle of creating a git format when patching dak to
> import a VCS-signed tag (which may be mor difficult, I agree) is much
> more efficient?
That doesn't solve the same problem as near as I can tell. That's a
replacement for the upload process, but once dak has imported the signed
tag and has a copy of the repository, now what? How is that data
represented? How is it distributed to Debian systems that want to
download the source package? I think you end up reinventing 3.0 (git) as
a format for redistributing the thing that dak has pulled as a signed tag.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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