Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems
Quoting Vincent Bernat (2017-01-04 08:12:08)
> ❦ 4 janvier 2017 04:52 GMT, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> :
>
> >>> It's surprisingly awkward, and, at least for me, it turns out that
> >>> externalizing my rebased branch as a patch series solves many of
> >>> problems surprisingly well. All the other solutions I can think of
> >>> require one or more things I don't really want to do: rebase the
> >>> debian/master branch, not be able to run dpkg-buildpackage from the
> >>> debian/master branch easily, or require that dpkg-buildpackage do
> >>> more mucking about with source control than I want it to.
> >>
> >>I believe the git-dpm approach would give you everything you want. The
> >>explanation on http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/ is pretty good.
> >>
> >>I personally think that technically git-dpm's approach is the best -
> >>but
> >>unfortunately the program itself is effectively unmaintained and
> >>apparently/consequently not used by many people.
> >
> > The Debian Python Modules Team (DPMT) has about 1,000 packages with
> > git-dpm repositories. While it took a bit of getting used to and
> > there have been a few problems, overall I think it's worked very well.
> > It's biggest problem is the lack of a maintainer.
>
> There have been a lot of complaints about it. For me, it is a pain to
> use. Its integration with gbp is poor, it produces a messy history when
> you are working on your patches and I often run into problems with
> .debian/.git-dpm file it maintains (import a new upstream, make some
> changes, notice that somebody else also pushed a change, pull --rebase,
> everything is broken). Since we started using it, we opened a lot of bug
> reports and not a single one of them has been fixed. I think that nobody
> wants to work on it because it is an extremely fragile tool and the
> first one to try to fix it will inherit of all the problems to solve.
>
> Isn't "gbp pq" a correct execution of the same principles?
> --
> Make your program read from top to bottom.
> - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
Do _any_ of the systems reliably handle a "git rebase" involving a merge
of new upstream release? In my experience gbp also fails that.
- Jonas
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