Hello I started to automate and to document my way to Debian packaging with git-buildpackage. You can find the German description under people.debian.org/~mechtilde/Dokumentation It is work in Progress Some people starting to translate it into English The source code is at salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/dpb Kind regards Mechtilde Am 04.06.21 um 20:49 schrieb Helmut Grohne: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 07:43:59PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> I want to add a few patches to this repository: >> >> <https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/> >> >> Surely there must be some tool support to help with that? I know how >> to do it manually (perhaps even involving quilt). Has every Debian >> developer their own script for that? (It's like this in RPM land …) > > There is no homogeneity on git repositories. The sad truth is that if > you want to work with arbitrary packages in a homogeneous way, it is > best to avoid git entirely and work with .debdiffs instead. Eventually, > dgit might solve this, but its adoption still is fairly low. > > Most of the time we're in favour of choice, flexibility and diversity. > This is one of the areas where diversity kills productivity. We've > mostly realized that for packaging helpers and the majority of the > archive uses dh now. It'll take another decade for us to realize this on > the vcs level. > > Raphaël tried to formalize this in > https://lists.debian.org/20140815141601.GA11454@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com, > but consensus wasn't reached back then in 2014. He did a stab via DEP-14 > starting at > https://lists.debian.org/20141111212624.GA19601@home.ouaza.com, but that > wasn't released either. For his work on dgit, Ian Jackson started an > informal survey on git packaging workflows at > https://lists.debian.org/21933.9687.747175.762898@chiark.greenend.org.uk. > Sam Harmann continued the effort in 2019 with > https://lists.debian.org/tslh86j7hgt.fsf@suchdamage.org. The one thing > that we learned in all this is that there are only few things we agree > on and that everyone wants to keep using their workflow. > > As someone who regularly does archive-wide work, I can tell that this > diversity is a barrier to contributing. > > Helmut > -- Mechtilde Stehmann ## Apache OpenOffice ## Freie Office Suite für Linux, MacOSX, Windows und OS/2 ## Debian Developer ## PGP encryption welcome ## F0E3 7F3D C87A 4998 2899 39E7 F287 7BBA 141A AD7F
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