Re: Upstream source handling
On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 02:16:13PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 7. The DFSG changes are not documented in the source package
> 8. Each featureset is reduced to a single patch in the source package
>
> (7) should be easy to fix, as the history is linear, except where we
> delete part of a file.
git can generate patch files for deleted files without actually showing
the content.
> (8) should be easy to fix for the 'none'
> featureset as its history will also be linear. For any other
> featuresets, reducing to a single patch may be unavoidable.
I didn't want to enfore a linear history, but if we say it will be
linear (and check that in a hook during push), we can also generate
expanded patch series.
Bastian
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