Re: Maintaining yorick in Vcs at debian.org (Was: RFS: yorick/2.2.02+dfsg-2)
Le 14/06/12 10:01, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:50:54PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
>>>> Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
>>>>
>>>> dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yorick/yorick_2.2.02+dfsg-2.dsc
>>>
>>> I wonder why you do not maintain the package at git.debian.org. This
>>> would make for sponsors and other team members way easier. I tried
>>>
>>> debcheckout --user tille yorick
>>>
>>> but failed becuase Vcs-Git points to github.com where I do not have any
>>> login nor could I commit some changes. For the sake of getting the
>>> metapackage which I do consider very interesting I would make some
>>> exception and would consider sponsering it anyway but otherwise I would
>>> probably insist in sticking to Debian Science policy and ask for using a
>>> debian.org hosted Vcs. Would you consider a move or do you want to
>>> stick to the current location for the moment?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> The reason is I never invested enough time to understand how to do that
>> (or even how to properly package under git). I haven't pushed my changes
>> to github yet.
>
> So I just uploaded the package as is to get the metapackage in.
Thanks, Andreas.
>
>> Note that at the moment the package is not under the debian science
>> packaging team umbrella. And this is also mostly because I was unsure
>> how to proceed.
>>
>> I would be willing to go in that direction in the future, of course.
>
> I would definitely ask for this. Please try to follow Debian Science
> policy[1] closely and use the debian.org infrastructure to enable
> effective team maintenance.
I have two questions that I need to decide before I commit anything to
alioth:
- since Yorick and its add-ons make 17 source packages (and growing),
wouldn't it make sense to put their respective repositories in a
subdirectory:
/git/debian-science/packages/yorick/yorick.git
/git/debian-science/packages/yorick/yorick-foo.git
/git/debian-science/packages/yorick/yorick-bar.git
- Yorick is only distributed from github (no distinct tarballs, just
git tags). It has to be repackaged to meet the DFSG. What I was
experimenting with on github is:
- one branch mirroring upstream (contains non-DFSG-free material);
- one branch for the DFSG free source;
- one branch for the Debian packaging.
Is that a reasonable approach for Alioth or should the non-DFSG-free
files never enter the debian.org domain?
> Further things to consider: I'm not a user of yorick but from my
> feeling it would be rather typical to name the metapackage "yorick" and
> the former yorick package "yorick-base" (or something like this). I
> left it as is for the moment because I assume you will have your reasons
> to do it that way but you might consider this for future releases.
I add thought about that too and I'm glad you answer that for me.
I think we are too close from freezing to undertake such a transition
(all the yorick-* packages would need to depend on yorick-base instead
of yorick etc...). Isn't that also your opinion ? Depending or
"yorick-base | yorick" would certainly ease transition and upgrades.
Regards, Thibaut.
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