Hi, Am Freitag, den 24.06.2016, 15:38 +0100 schrieb Jonathan Dowland: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 03:02:57PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I never really understood why there is a games team; assuming that > > technically, almost every game is an island. (Ok, legal issues might be > > similar). This is a very different situation than programming library > > packaging. > > > > With the Haskell packages, regularly do mass-changes and they work > > well. I can try to dig up some examples from git history, if you are > > interested. > > You're right that games are probably less homogenous than common language > libraries. The kind of mass-changes we were making were therefore quite small, > and usually Debian specific (things like add or change a control field across > all packages, or bump standards version). Nevertheless, it rarely paid off. here is one example that worked well: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-haskell/DHG_packages.git/commit/?id=aacf56121852f0618776bd36f162ba266221c674 Another example is mentioned in https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2013/10/msg00007.html that shows our "mass change" script (now "dht mass-change" in of pkg- haskell-tools). That was still when when every package had its own repository, so there are now many commits from that invocation; if I’d run this command now it would produce only a single commit. From "man dht": dht mass-change Usage: dht mass-change [-n] [MESSAGE] [ACTION] DIRECTORY ... This script runs ACTION in each of the given directories. If the ACTION ef‐ fected a change, it will add MESSAGE to the changelog. It assumes that all directories are in the same git repository as this script. It ensures that the repository is clean to begin with, and will commit all changes at once at the end, if there was a change. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org • https://people.debian.org/~nomeata XMPP: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F https://www.joachim-breitner.de/
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