Hi, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Here are some answers. Feel free to (re)organize them in a wiki page > under the DebianInstaller namespace. :) > > Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> (2018-08-10): > > Yes, and I didn't read anything about that in the several > > packaging/uploading docu. So that's mostly best practice, but no > > strict packaging rule or the like? > > > > Also, I don't know anything about tagging. So, I need to know > > something more about this tagging: > > > > When do we use it? > > Just for every new uploaded version, as it seems... > > More circumstances, where to set tags? > > I think most if not all packaging teams create tags when they upload a > given revision of a source package; this even existed prior to git! :) > > This makes it possible to identify what revision of source code was > (probably, no absolute guarantee) used to create a given package, > which limits the need for downloading entire history of source > packages using debsnap and friends. > > > Which tags do we use? The lightweighted or the annotated ones? > > Looking at the existing tags, it seems that's annotated ones, but > > without GPG signatur. Right? > > I tend to use this when releasing: > > git commit -am 'releasing version $copied_from_changelog' > git tag -sm 'tagging version $copied_from_changelog' > $copied_possibly_adapted_from_changelog
Ok, understood. And done. Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Finterprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
