Re: Best practice for packaging a development snapshot from upstream
Hi Ghislain,
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 08:02:39PM +0000, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> A while back, I packaged a library (NFFT) via the regular process of
> downloading the latest tarball, committing it with pristine-tar and hacking
> my way to get a package to build with gbp. Upstream has since moved the
> latest development version to Github but has yet to tag anything for a
> release. However, I'd like to take a head start and build a package from
> the current tip of the upstream development branch. If successful, the next
> step would be to upload to experimental.
>
> What's the best way to achieve this workflow. Can I somehow instruct gbp to
> build from an upstream branch instead of relying on an official tarball ?
I'm personally no friend of this but that's my policy. You could dive
for hints in the Debian Med policy where Charles Plessy added some hints
which probably will not create any conflict with Debian Science policy.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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