Re: Guidelines for source control management
Hi,
thanks for all your feedback! I've updated the Wiki pages.
Merry X-mas!
Torsten
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> wrote:
> 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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