Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

[Mathieu Parent <math.parent@gmail.com>]

2014-11-12 14:29 GMT+01:00 Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Mathieu Parent wrote:
>> Maybe a short note would be good then? (but I don't know how to write it).
>
> I suggest this:
>
> --- a/web/deps/dep14.mdwn
> +++ b/web/deps/dep14.mdwn
> @@ -230,6 +230,17 @@ non-patchable data), you can do so but you should then document
>  this in `debian/README.source` along with some explanations of the tool
>  to use to build the package.
>
> +About repacked upstream sources
> +-------------------------------
> +
> +When the upstream sources needs to be repacked (for example to drop some
> +non-DFSG compliant files), then the branches and tags under the
> +`upstream/` prefix should actually contain the repacked sources.
> +
> +How the problematic files are pruned does not matter. What matters is that
> +what is stored in the `upstream/*` namespace are the sources that package
> +maintainers are effectively using.
> +
>  Managing debian/changelog
>  -------------------------
>
>
> Does this meet your expectation?

Yes. thanks for taking care.

Regards

-- 
Mathieu