On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 08:31:11PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > In fact, git-dpm was what finally sold me on converting all my packages
> > to git. For me, it's streets ahead of previous methods of managing
> > Debian patches in revision control in
the same way that 3.0 (quilt) was
> > streets ahead of the various older build-time patch systems.
>
> Can someone point me to a package managed by git-dpm so I can have
> a look?
Examples from my own package list (which isn't to say nobody else is
using it, it's just that these are ones I happen to have handy):
openssh (lots of patches)
dumpet (a small number of patches)
six (no patches)
They all have Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser fields.
> One using git-buildpackage would be useful as a comparison.
I don't have examples to hand, but note that there are a couple of
different possibilities here (at least). You can take the
completely
flat approach: use quilt for managing patches, but keep the patch stack
unapplied at commit time and just commit the files in debian/patches/.
(This of course means that when upgrading to new upstream versions you
have to do the quilt push / quilt refresh thing and resolve any
conflicts there.) Or you can use gbp-pq, which keeps a separate
patch-queue branch and serialises this in I think roughly the same kind
of way that git-dpm does.
I had the impression that git-dpm was better-integrated than gbp-pq from
looking through their respective documentation, but I will admit that I
have not spent much time playing with gbp-pq.
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