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Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format



Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> writes:

> I don't recognise the repository structure that was raised by myself and
> some others: A VCS repository that contains only the Debian packaging
> files, which at build time is then exported to a non-VCS working tree
> and moerged with the upstream source.

> It may be “bare debian” is meant to cover this; but I don't recognise
> the comment “requires use of quilt and similar tools” because I've never
> needed to use Quilt for this.

How do you handle needed changes to the upstream source?  Or do you just
never make any changes to the upstream source?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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