Re: git-buildpackage and patches

[Laurent Léonard <laurent@open-minds.org>]

Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 15:36:18, Pietro Battiston a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I like git-buildpackage a lot. But I don't understand what's "the right
> way" to manage patches.
> 
> The git-buildpackage manual suggests it's gbp-pq, which works on a
> separate branch. I would have nothing against this approach, if it
> worked transparently. Instead, when I "import" and then "export"
> patches, they change names and, most importantly, content.
> 
> By "most importantly" I mean it makes it impossible to follow
> http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ .

gbp-pq import/export only updates "Date" field and diff, it doesn't change the 
other fields you may add... The only thing that change in the patch name is the 
prefix number when you drop a patch, but IMHO it's not a problem.

We are using gbp-pq to manage patches for libvirt related packages for example 
and we always try to follow DEP-3 for new patches.

-- 
Laurent Léonard