Re: VCS repositories
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 06:18:44AM +0000, Warlich, Christof wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit desperate to find out how the Debian project maintains
> its patches w.r.t. upstream repositories. Thus, while I can
> explore the _current_ patches of a package by looking at the
> "*.debian.tar.gz"-archive after obtaining its sources through "apt-get
> source <package-name>", I'd be rather interested in both history
> and future of these patches along the lifetime of a Debian releases'
> maintainance period.
>
> At the first glance, things look quite straight forward: Starting
> with, say, the "glibc"-package, an "apt-get source glibc" tells me
> that I may get the git repo of the related Debian patches by cloning
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-glibc/glibc.git. But as it turns
> out, this (and some other Debian) hosts went offline as they are being
> replaced by https://salsa.debian.org. So I finally get what I am looking
> for by cloning https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc.git. Great.
>
> Getting rather encouraged by that, I tried to find
> the repo for the "binutils" patches. Again, "apt-get
> source binutils" tells me that I should get it from
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doko/binutils/pkg-2.28-debian. And again,
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doko/binutils/pkg-2.28-debian is gone. But
> this time, I couldn't find a substitute on https://salsa.debian.org.
>
> Further looking around, it seems that there are still quite a few
> (if not most!) packages still missing on https://salsa.debian.org,
> although this transition was, as I recall, supposed to be completed
> by the end of Mai 2018.
>
> So finally, here is my question: When may I expect that
> VCS-repositories for all Debian packages may be available through
> https://salsa.debian.org (including updates of the packages to point to
> the new repository location on https://salsa.debian.org as printed by
> "apt-get source") and what could I do in the meantime w.r.t. packages
> like binutils, which are obviously gone from their old place, while
> they are still not available on https://salsa.debian.org?
I think original poster is unaware of `debcheckout` from
the package `devscripts`.
`debcheckout PACKAGE` does "VCS checkout (or cloning) of PACKAGE"
Checkout URL is taken from debian/control Vcs-Vcs:
There is no must on "git" and "salsa"
> Many thanks for any insight on that topic,
sudo apt install devscripts
debcheckout PACKAGE
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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