Re: ITR: febootstrap
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
<dmitrij.ledkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/1 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:26:32AM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Suggestions:
>>>
>>> - It is usually a good idea to maintain the debian packaging also in a VCS.
>>> Even though this package is simple, since you are also the upstream, I was
>>> wondering if you you would be interested in maintaining the Debian packaging
>>> also in upstream git (possibly on a debian branch). In case you implement
>>> this suggestion, please add Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser to debian/control.
>>
>> I'm of course maintaining this package in my own VCS. Is the suggestion
>> to add the debian/ subdirectory to my upstream git:
>>
>> http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=febootstrap.git;a=summary
>>
>> I thought it was bad for upstream to have their own debian/
>> subdirectory?
>>
>
> Yeap bad. But there is a tool called git-buildpackage which is used to
> aid packages to maintain their work.
>
> Branch the revision you are trying to package into a branch called
> "debian" and commit your packaging activitry onto that branch. And
> pull into "debian" branch new upstream releases =D just google about
> git-buildpackage a few how-to's should show up. Basicly it can grab /
> create correct tarballs and perform build (debuild / pbuilder)
> automagically without messing up your branch.
>
You can check out http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html
for a description of a workflow like this, it's my personal choice.
--
Daniel Moerner <dmoerner@gmail.com>
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