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Re: Using the same Alioth git repo for multiple source packages.



Hi,

On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Maxime Chatelle wrote:
> Is it a good practice to use the same Alioth packaging repository to
> maintain two (and later, three) source packages ? Obviously the three
> source package come from the same upstream git repository. The point is
> to maintain 2 (or 3) development branchs of the same software while
> avoiding repository duplication.

No, few of the helper tools make it really easy to maintain multiple
source packages in the same repository.

It's certainly possible but it's not what I would call good practices
in Debian.

Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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