Hello, On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 01:21pm +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > >> Please let us know if we have missed one. It is probably better if >> you ask us rather than just adding it, unless you're sure that what >> you are adding isn't the same as one of the existing ones. In >> particular it seems that "unapplied" is used by a large number of >> people with disjoint tooling and disjoint terminology. > > 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. Yes, "bare debian" is meant to cover this. And the new release of dgit in sid supports this workflow :) Please consider testing it. I don't think the comment about quilt is unreasonable, because it seems like you've just been lucky in not having to use quilt, or similar, yet. "Never having a Debian delta" would seem to be a property of packages, not workflows. -- Sean Whitton
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