On Jan 21, 2014, at 08:05 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >git-buildpackage has a few misbehaviors by default: the fact that it builds >in place by default instead of exporting to a separate dir is annoying >(--git-export-dir=../build-area/), and that you have to pass it extra >options when you're building from a branch named 'debian' >(--git-debian-branch=branch_name). IIRC there are subtle differences in >behavior between --svn-ignore-new and --git-ignore-new, but I don't remember >now what they are. That's my vague recollection too. >Right... these are things the end user (or the package maintainer) should >not have to configure :) > >But I don't think the DPMT should wait for these buglets to be fixed in >git-buildpackage before switching to git. (Not that my opinion matters >anyway. :) Agreed. We have precedence here too: there were annoying buglets in the Python helpers, which we documented around until they were fixed[*]. We can do the same thing here too, because wikis. Cheers, -Barry [*] like having to explicitly loop through Python versions until pybuild came along. :)
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