Re: a few quick questions on gbp pq workflow

[Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org>]

Hi,

2017-08-06 12:26 GMT-04:00 Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>:

I don't work on the OpenStack packages, but I do maintain a reasonable number of Python packages.  I always work from the released tarball.  I haven't added the keys yet to verify all my packages, but am gradually doing so as I have time.

I know some people like working from the upstream git (and the team maintenance workflow allows for either), but I definitely prefer working from the upstream tarballs and appreciate the effort that goes into producing them.

It's not always possible/simple/nice to use sdist, because it contains prebuild docs. And I don't like to do +dfsg rebuild just for removing docs. Sometimes sdists doesn't contain tests.

So my preference is:

• use sdist if it's possible (have tests, don't have prebuilds, ...)
• use git tag tarballs (https://github.com/<group>/<projects>/tags)

I already migrated few packages OS->DPMT so far.

 

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Best regards
 Ondřej Nový
 
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