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Re: using git-dpm or plain git-buildpackage in PAPT and DPMT



On Friday, August 12 2016, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Aug 12, 2016, at 05:50 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>
>>I understand this is a matter of personal taste, but I beg to differ.  I
>>have been using git-buildpackage for most of my non-Python packages and,
>>despite really small nits here and there, I think it is an awesome tool.
>
> I think there are multiple ways in which git-buildpackage is used.  E.g. I use
> `gbp buildpackage` even for git-dpm maintained packages, to build the source
> package, etc.  (It even has a nicer `clone` command that makes it easy to
> actually get tracking branches; just wish it had something like
> `pull-and-update-all-branches` since it's a bit of a PITA to update the
> pristine-tar branch.)

Yeah, I use 'gbp dch' and 'gbp buildpackage' when dealing with git-dpm
packaging, too.

> It's just the few things that git-dpm adds on top of gbp that we're discussing
> getting rid of, like importing a new upstream, managing the quilt patch set,
> tagging.

Right, that's what I thought, and those things are exactly what make me
unhappy about using git-dpm :-).

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