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Re: Guidelines for source control management



Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2011, 15:43 +0200 schrieb Torsten Werner:
> Hi,
> 
> I've touched many packages in the past weeks and found several package
> that I could not change easily or could not change at all. That is not
> the idea behind Debian - to make changes hard. That is why I have
> started writing down some guidelines at 3 wiki pages:
> - http://wiki.debian.org/Java/JavaVcs
> - http://wiki.debian.org/Java/JavaSvn
> - http://wiki.debian.org/Java/JavaGit
> Please read these pages and send your comments / questions. The
> rationale is that I want to file bug reports against packages that do
> not follow those guidelines and do not document their rules/workflows
> in README.source.

I have some comments:

> Packages SHOULD implement a get-orig-source target in debian/rules if
possible

I think we only need get-orig-source if debian/watch isn't enough to get
the source.

> QUESTION: should the patches be applied or unapplied by default? 

I vote for unapplied by default. This makes merging new upstream
releases easier.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer

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