On Mar 24, Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > But I think that someone who knows how to use git should be able to > get the source code for a package in Debian, as a git branch, and > modify that source code, and share it, and so on, without needing to > deal with quilt, or learn any of dpkg-source --commit, git-dpm, gbp, > git-debcherry, debian-git-patch-spoogler, Uncle Tom Cobbly and all. I cannot comment on other the workflows of specific tools, mostly because I have never managed to find one that would solve some problems that I have, but my own packages do not require anything like that, not even quilt. E.g.: git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/users/md/kmod.git cd kmod # if you do not have the upstream source archive then you can make your own git checkout v22 cd .. tar cJf kmod_22.orig.tar.xz kmod cd kmod git checkout master # and now you can start hacking echo meh >> TODO # if you do not know about this step then dpkg-buildpackage will # helpfully tell you about it dpkg-source --commit debuild There is nothing here but pure git and standard Debian tools. Also, considering that most Debian packages nowadays use the 3.0 quilt format I do not think that asking developers to use quilt is an excessive burden. -- ciao, Marco
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