On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Why would you tag the upstream release? I mean, it's upstream's job to
Yeah, if upstream uses git at least it should NOT be done by the packager. If not, it depends. > > - shall we standardize the "pristine-tar" branch? > > As in, always use pristine-tar? No! ACK. Vendor lock-in. > Yes. Producing orig.tar.xz out of upstream tag should be industrialized, > and written in "some" tools, which we would all be using. I currently > do: ./debian/rules gen-orig-xz, but that shouldn't be specific to my own > packages. Then please read DevRef §6.7.8.2 and use debian/rules get-orig-source instead. It also specifies how the top-level directory of the origtgz shall be named if you repackage. As for a non-repackaged origtgz… use upstream’s if at all possible. bye, //mirabilos -- «MyISAM tables -will- get corrupted eventually. This is a fact of life. » “mysql is about as much database as ms access” – “MSSQL at least descends from a database” “it's a rebranded SyBase” “MySQL however was born from a flatfile and went downhill from there” – “at least jetDB doesn’t claim to be a database” ‣‣‣ Please, http://deb.li/mysql and MariaDB, finally die! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.11.1408181350091.30...@tglase.lan.tarent.de
