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Bug#863216: ITP: emacs-ivy -- a generic completion frontend for Emacs



Hello Nicholas,

On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 06:14:53PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Do you think the following is the best course of action?:
> 
> Rename master-nonfree to something that better signifies it's only
> used for merging (from upstream git remote) upstream docs; document
> this somehow (README.sources? In both branches, or just in one of
> them?); maybe drop upstream-nonfree, strip out all non-docs from
> newname-for-master-nonfree, and build the non-free emacs-ivy-docs
> orig.source using deborig?  This orig.source seems like it only needs
> to contain the emacs-ivy/docs subdir.  Finally, debian/* on the
> newname-for-master-nonfree branch would need to be modified.

Renaming branches is equivalent to rewinding history, so please avoid
that.

We're going to need two source packages, so I think we should have two
repos, organised like this:

emacs-ivy-doc -- just 'master' branch

emacs-ivy -- 'upstream' branch with cleaned sources, 'master' branch
including debian/ dir

--
Sean Whitton

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