Re: upstream-vcs
-=| gregor herrmann, 28.08.2014 11:03:40 -0700 |=-
> On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 19:38:39 +0100, intrigeri wrote:
> So I guess we can just do this part :)
> The only thing I'm mildly concerned about is how this affects the
> time to run `mr up' if it checks and fetches hundreds (thousands?) of
> upstream repos.
>
> Anyway, added to .mrconfig now, committed&pushed.
> (Anyone feel free to improve/revert in case of problems.)
>
> > > not sure if the _checkout needs it as
> > > well and it could grow a bit complicated; but this could call
> > > dpt-upstream-repo, if we want this "depencency".
> > I've been doing such things in my personal .mrconfig for years, and am
> > quite happy with it. I actually have things in there that are waaaay
> > more complicated than just calling dpt-upstream-repo at _checkout
> > time :]
>
> :)
>
> > The only concern I would have (about calling dpt-upstream-repo) is
> > that it sometimes modifies the just-cloned repo (creating
> > debian/upstream/metadata) and commits, which feels quite surprising
> > semantics to me: I generally expect to get a local HEAD in the same
> > state as the one on the remote repo I've just cloned.
>
> Makes sense.
>
> > Perhaps we could run dpt-upstream-repo with an option that instructs
> > it to not modify the repo? That is, it would read information from
> > whatever source is readily available (debian/copyright,
> > debian/upstream/metadata), but it would *not* run dpt debian-upstream.
>
> I've added a -g (as in "don't commit to _g_it") option in
> dpt-upstream-repo some days ago which skips the git add/commit
> debian/upstream/metadata.
>
> So, this should be something like
> if [ -e /usr/share/pkg-perl-tools/upstream-repo ]; then dpt upstream-repo -g; fi
> in dpt_checkout, I guess?
Gregor asked me to take a look and I did. FWIW, it seems fine.
> > Alternatively, we could mitigate this problem by running "dpt
> > debian-upstream" on all packages once for all, and at initial
> > packaging / take over time as well.
>
> I guess the mass-commit would be a good idea in any case.
Yes.
A question for the future: how to proceed when upstream changes
location of their Git repository?
> And then we also need support in
> - dh-make-perl for new packages
TODO added.
> - dpt-checkout, probably with the same two lines (for clone/pull) as
> in .mrconfig; and maybe without the -g?
Done.
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