Re: VCS repositories
"Warlich, Christof" <christof.warlich@siemens.com> writes:
> 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.
I suspect you may be looking for dgit, which exposes the history of a
package as a Git repository. For maintainers that also use Git and make
dgit-aware uploads, this will be the full Git history; for packages whose
maintainers don't use dgit for whatever reason, it will just have one
revision per upload to the archive. But that may still be enough
granularity for your purposes.
If you install dgit and then run man dgit-user, hopefully that should get
you started.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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