Hi, Am Samstag, den 05.04.2014, 10:34 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: > Am Samstag, den 05.04.2014, 09:03 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 05:35:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I notice as a result that our darcs GHC repository is at 7.8, though, > > > and my understanding of darcs is that a 7.6 maintenance branch (e.g. > > > for arm64 porting) would need to be pushed to a different directory, > > > maybe just s/ghc/ghc-7.6/. Do you have any preferences? > > > > I was ready to upload 7.6.3-9, but I couldn't work out how to get at > > something in darcs I could commit to; 7.6.3-8 seems to be tagged but I > > don't know darcs well enough to figure out how or whether I can add > > commits just from that point. I've attached the debdiff. I'm happy to > > break that down and commit it myself if somebody tells me how, or it's > > simple enough that somebody who knows how could just commit and tag it > > directly. > > You can do it interactively. Keep running > $ darcs obliterate > and say "yes" to everything but "tagged 7.6.3-8". You need to iterate > that, darcs seems to stop asking after tags (dunno why), until it only > offers you that patch. Then you have reached that tag. > > Alternatively > $ darcs get ~/debian/pkg-haskell/repos/ghc --tag 7.6.3-8 > > Then you can work as usual. You will, however, have to merge again > before pushing, which requires manual conflict resolution in > debian/changelog. > > If this sounds too annoying to learn let me know and I’ll do it. I guess that was the case, so I did in. Unfortunately, the merging hit a bug in darcs. So for now I did: > We could also start having separate repositories (= branches, in Darcs) > on alioth for unstable and experimental, as we used to have. At least > for ghc; I don’t expect much parallel development for the libraries. and you can either $ darcs get darcs.debian.org:/darcs/pkg-haskell/ghc or $ darcs get darcs.debian.org:/darcs/pkg-haskell/experimental/ghc We better merge them after a switch to git, it seems :-] Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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