Re: [libshib-common-java] 02/06: Initial debianisation

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 14/04/14 16:44, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 14/04/2014 15:51, Matthew Vernon a écrit :
> 
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/debian/source/patch-header
>> @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
>> +Subject: Collected Debian patches for libshib-common-java
>> +Author: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
>> +
>> +The libshib-common-java package is maintained in Git rather than
>> +maintaining patches as separate files, and separating the patches
>> +doesn't seem to be worth the effort.  They are therefore all included
>> +in this single Debian patch.
>> +
>> +For full commit history and separated commits, see the packaging Git
>> +repository.
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> I saw that you mentioned patches managed by Git, do you have some
> documentation on how this is performed exactly? Most of the packages
> I've seen use quilt to manage the patches and I'm not sure I would know
> how to update such a package properly.

I used the approach Russ describes here (in case that seems like an odd
approach, I did this because I was working towards the Shibboleth IdP
package, and this is the approach the shibboleth team takes).

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html

I'm not wedded to this approach, though.

Regards,

Matthew