On Wednesday, May 01, 2013 09:28:10 PM Daniel Pocock wrote: > Would there be any hard objection to a source package format based on > git-bundle?
Hi Daniel, while I'm a big fan of Git, I don't see that much gain in a git based source package format. I also assume that it would be a lot of work to change the Debian infrastructure in that way. But I see a lot of benefit in the following smaller steps towards more usage of git: - Standardize our workflow, see this discussion: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00183.html In particular: - If upstream uses Git, keep the upstream history as a branch in the Git packaging repo. - Standardize the management of patches. - Let dak commit all uploaded versions of packages to Git, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/11/msg00138.html - Introduce an alternative to ftp uploads based on signed git tags: Maintainers can push a signed git tag to alioth and the Debian infrastructure will start to build the package. I have not yet thought that much about this point and it doesn't seem too important to me. But it would be a nice addition. - The last point requires the following wishlist issue to be fixed in pristine- tar: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699378 - Convince more maintainers to use Git (instead of SVN): http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/vcs-usage/ Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/3847853.e8xl3VGRDu@x121e
