Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:59:59PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Big fat enormous NO! gbp is a workaround for the biggest evil in our
> packaging: quilt. Watching pro-git-only talks on the Debconf, I got the
> impression that if we dropped the VCS-in-VCS approach, there'd be no need
> for most of that complexity.
gbp is nasty stuff, yes.
Years ago I made plans to make good use of the "3.0 (custom)" source
format by writing one large patch into the finished source package. It
would just work with non-linear history by simply diffing the branch
point and the head.
What is also missing: merge friendly changelog management.
> And, a flat tarball like .orig is no longer a preferred form for
> modification. Do you remember the brouchacha in 2011 when Red Hat released
> their kernel sources that way?
It was never. A tarball is a container of files. The files inside are
the perferred form of modification.
Regards,
Bastian
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