On Mar 19, 2016, at 04:27 PM, Daniel Stender wrote: >dealing with Dgit beyond a "simple" workflow (clone/fetch - make changes - >dgit push) I wanted to poll for workflows towards new upstream tarballs and, >connected to that, the treatment of patches.
I haven't used dgit for anything real yet, but I'm playing with it now. Over in DPMT we use git-dpm, which unfortunately appears to be unmaintained( last upload was 18-Oct-2014 afaict). These packages use a mix of git-dpm and gbp for patch management, packaging building, tagging, etc. For other projects not in the DPMT, I've used straight-up gbp (and gbp-pq for patch management). Aside: I do like separating Debian deltas from upstream pristine source because I find them easier to track as upstream changes. So I'm still a fan of 3.0-quilt but I understand the problems involved, and I'm sure there's a git-ier way of making Debian deltas obvious. OTOH, walking up to a debian/patches directory with nice DEP-3 files makes it really easy to see what's going on. git-dpm/gbp-pq with the occasional `git rebase -i upstream` does a pretty good job of allowing me to refresh the patches, merge them, updated them, and delete them. When it works, it works great. Even if I didn't like 3.0-quilt, I think it's clear that dgit has to work well with such package formats as it will be a long time, if ever that a maintainer won't have to walk up to a quiltified package to do some work on. I'm not personally a fan of single-debian-patch. The other thing I like about git-dpm/gbp-pq is the upstream and pristine-tar branches. It's nice to have upstream already there, and you can fairly easily diff against the last upstream version you uploaded. pristine-tar I guess you don't usually look at explicitly, but given that most Python upstreams still release tarballs, it's very comfortable to have a pristine-tar based git workflow in Debian. I like being able to say e.g. `gbp import-orig --uscan` and now (barring conflicts) all the branches reflect the new upstream. It's not at all clear to me how to (best) import a new upstream orig.tar.gz for a new upstream version. It's difficult to be more simple than `gbp import-orig --uscan` but that's the level I'd like to work at. Cheers, -Barry
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