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Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format



On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 11:37 AM Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ben Finney 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.
>
> How do you handle needed changes to the upstream source?  Or do you just
> never make any changes to the upstream source?

I make the changes upstream, make a new release (or wait for upstream
to do so) and then update the Debian package.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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