Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file
On 06/15/2012 12:03 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Anyway, here's what I've been doing for our 150+ X packages:
>
> $ cat xserver-xorg-video-ati.git/debian/watch
> #git=git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
> version=3
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/ xf86-video-ati-(.*)\.tar\.gz
>
> debcheckout gives you a debian-unstable branch by default. Then calling
> the tiny xsf-remote-add-upstream script gets the watch file parsed, and
> the upstream branch added:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-xorg/debian/xsf-tools.git;a=blob;f=xsf-remote-add-upstream
>
That's really cool, but what would be even cooler would be something
standardized in Debian, so that we all do the same way. Probably
having your something like your xfs-remote-add-upstream script, but
built in debcheckout, git-buildpackage or something like that.
Now that you tell about it, I agree that adding yet another field in
debian/control was short sighted.
Thomas
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