Hello, On Thu 27 Jun 2019 at 05:23pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Are you sure about this conclusion ? Firstly, about "how common": eg, > the current Linux kernel packages have upstream git. Probably best not to assume it's more common, if we can avoid that, indeed. > Secondly: > > If the user says "use upstream from git" but there is no git, the user > gets an error message mentioning git tags and that can also say > something about the other quilt mode. > > If the user says "use upstream tarball" but they had git available, > the result is to silently ignore the upstream history and use a > tarball import instead. > > In keeping with the philosophy of making doing the right thing > convenient, suboptimals things possible, and requiring mistakes to be > explicit, ISTM that the tarball variant should mention that. "mention that"? Sorry, I'm not sure about how what you say here is a response to what I wrote. >> An alternative to 'packaging' would be 'debiandir'. > > In my new taxonomy, I call this "bare debian" so baredebian would be a > possibility. > > I think quilt modes could contain + signs so perhaps > baredebian+git > baredebian+tarball This, or debiandir+git and debiandir+tarball, LGTM. -- Sean Whitton
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