Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control
On 9/3/08, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Le Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:04:12PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
>
> > Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de> writes:
> >
> > > I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a
> > > version control system (SVN).
> >
> > An unfortunate choice of VCS, since it is far behind more modern VCS
> > software for flexibility of management. Any of Git, Bazaar, Darcs, or
> > (perhaps) Mercurial would be a better choice for a new project IMHO.
>
>
> Sure, but Andreas wrote that he needs the MergeWithUpstream feature of
> svn-buildpackage because the upstream source contains
> non-redistributable material.
>
The bzr equivalent of svn-buildpackage (the strangely named
bzr-builddeb) has a command "bd-do" which supports exactly this
use-case. For a merge-with-upstream package it exports the package,
then runs the command you specify in the source tree, then copies back
the changes in the debian/ directory - so, for example, 'bzr bd-do
dpatch-edit-patch 01_foo' will do what you'd hope it to do.
It would presumably be fairly simple to implement this functionality
in the other *-buildpackage programs.
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