On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:15:41AM -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > Le vendredi 09 avril 2010 à 08:17 +0200, Andreas Henriksson a écrit : [...] > > I do understand that you might want to easily be able to build local > > test versions straight from git for your testing, but these should IMHO > > not be uploaded as official Debian packages. > > > > I agree, any random git commit X shouldn't just be blindly uploaded as > an official Debian package. > > However, I can see a reason already to publish a git commit for > emerillon rather than the last release (but feel free to let me know if > you feel this is unreasonable): the last release of emerillon (0.1.1) > was in January, and since there has been commits to git with additional > translations. I'd very much like to be able to include those, for the > benefit of everyone. I think this is usually handled by cherry-picking from upstream git repo into a packaging repositorys branch which is then exported into debian/patches/ to avoid messing with the orig tarball.... ... or similar when the packaging is not done in a git repo. (Feel free to check out the rygel packaging for an example of a patch branch exported to debian/patches/.) Anyway, it's definitely common that debian/patches/ contains patches that comes from upstream and AFAIK not common to re-package the orig tarball and put it inside there. [...] > At least for me, it makes sense to use already *known to me* and > *comfortable to me* ways of handling this, in the event that I was to > maintain it alone (or with other people who are familiar with this > method). It doesn't mean it's something I invented, and actually isn't > the case anyway. It's also clear I couldn't just use a method I was not > aware of yet, but thanks for pointing it out to me. These reasons of > using my method is obviously no longer a valid point if maintaining > emerillon with pkg-gnome, where yes, gnome-pkg-tools is the established > way of fetching tarballs or building from git. You're ofcourse welcome to handle your packages any way you wish. I was interested if you saw any actual general advantage in your way other then you being used to it. I guess we've confirmed not. This wasn't clear to me in our previous ping-pong and I'm sorry if repeating this question in new ways annoyed you. -- Andreas Henriksson
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