Hi Andreas, On Di 19 Apr 2016 12:00:39 CEST, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hi Dominik, On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:>> * It only contains debian/ now. > >Do you have any reason for this? Yes, because that's what Mike originally asked for, unless I got him wrong.I do not see any good reason for this kind of advise. Mike, could you please confirm that you are against keeping the upstream source inside the archive. IMHO this is against a very common gbp workflow and in this specific case I think its definitely needed.
Personally, I am not a great fan of gbp. It has caused me more trouble than served any good (and I really think that gbp is a great tool for Debian packaging, as I said, my personal workflow does not use it).
What I prefer doing (and this is personal style, really):o Have a well-defined tarball (i.e. provided by upstream, Debian archive (snapshot.debian.org), pristine-tar)
o Have a Git repo with debian/ folder only. Then I do: o Obtain the tarball (get-orig-source, pristine-tar checkout, etc.) o then:$ debuild -uc -us -S -Zxz (on the folder with the debian/ folder only in it)
$ cd ..
$ sbuild -sAd unstable <dsc-file>
That works perfectly for all of my packages (MATE desktop, GOsa).
I once dropped using gbp when I discovered that gbp does not support
multi-tarball Debian packages (GOsa packaging is unhandable with gbp).
This may have changed meanwhile, but I don't see that benefit of
shipping upstream code in packaging repos. (Maybe I have looked to
much at http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/, as well).
About the tarball download source: Once some upstream release has been uploaded to Debian with source format 3.0, I consider the upstream tarball being available in Debian (or on snapshots.debian.org). Personally, I don't see the extra gain of shipping the same code in Git. Again, very personal style and way of seeing things.
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