Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> writes: > 2011/11/8 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr>: > >> I don't really see what is the value added in having the same DVCS >> between upstream and Debian, since in practice the two repositories do >> not share any history (the Debian repository only stores the upstream >> tarballs, not the whole upstream history). > > That's exactly what I want to change, to share the packaging branch > between the two repositories. That way we can regularly build packages > straight from the Savannah branch and update the packaging branch with > whatever changes it may need, and then the Alioth branch can just pull > from the Savannah branch. > > Yes, this is ok, this is not harmful, many other projects work closely > with upstream like this. Do you have some examples? -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics at CEPREMAP & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-49-90 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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