Re: Adopting OpenStack packages
Excerpts from Brian May's message of 2017-03-06 12:30:56 +1100:
> The concept to convert from git-dpm to gbp pq is very very easy:
>
> 1. Delete debian/.git-dpm
> 2. Unapply all patches.
> 3. Commit and push.
>
> (repeat for all branches on all repositories)
>
> Step 2 is easier said then done. I can do it easy enough on my own
> packages. I think we need a documented process anyone can follow. Plus
> dealing with errors as required (e.g. if unapplying patches causes
> conflicts due to non-compliant git-dpm package) - if anything like this
> happens - hopefully on not many packages, these packages might require
> manual processing.
>
> The obvious way "quilt pop -a" doesn't work, because the quilt .pc
> directory does not exist, and quilt thinks the patches are already
> unapplied. I sent an email previously with some (untested) suggestions I
> had.
>
Can we do this now, and push to a branch, so that when we unfreeze we
can just 'git merge --ff-only' from master and then re-do any that fail?
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