Bug#412437: getdeb.net deb source (+ Alioth project)
2009/1/18 Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> (sorry for the late response)
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:14:18AM +0000, Alan Woodland wrote:
>> Savvas Radevic wrote:
>>> Also this personal package archive (Fabien Tassin):
>>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu/pool/main/s/songbird/
>> The project on alioth has been approved now, and I've added Ryan to the
>> developers on it. I did have a quick look over the Ubuntu source they
>> have in launchpad yesterday lunchtime, but didn't build it yet. I also
>> couldn't quite figure out how to make git play nice with bzr either. Any
>> thoughts on that yet Ryan? Feel free to set something up on the group
>> filespace on alioth if you want!
>
> There's this http://github.com/pieter/git-bzr/tree/master
> It claims to work with the git-core in experimental.
>
> I can try to figure out how to make it play nice with git-buildpackage
> (if possible..)
That would be good if you could give that a try?
> or we could just not use git-buildpackage (just keep the debian
> directory in a git repo w/o upstream source)
There's still the issue of if we should view ubuntu as an intermediate
upstream or just fork what they've already got.
git-buildpackage does sound quite reasonable to me.
> If that doesn't work out, I'm not completely opposed to using bzr..
>
> do you have an opinion on it?
So far I've used neither git nor bzr, my own work repositories are
only starting to migrate from CVS to SVN at the moment!
> any of those solutions are fine with me.
> (git w/o upstream source would be my choice).
That works for me provided we find a solution to integrate with
ubuntu's packaging efforts.
Alan
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