Re: repackaging, git, version suffix
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Thomas Koch wrote:
> Now I saw, that in the eclipse GIT repository[3] there's one tag
> upstream/3.5.1 and another one upstream/3.5.1+repack. I don't know,
> whether the eclipse package is doing so, but we could standardize on:
>
> - import the upstream tarball as is without filtering to tag
> upstream/VERSION - import the upstream tarball again with filtering to tag
> upstream/VERSION+SUFFIX
For git packaging, it is useful to also have an "upstream" branch
(especially when upstream uses git as well), so that moving to a new
upstream version becomes a merge.
Cheers,
Marcus
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