On Jan 04 2017, Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> wrote:
> ❦ 4 janvier 2017 09:47 -0800, Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> :
>
>>>>>> It's surprisingly awkward, and, at least for me, it turns out that
>>>>>> externalizing my rebased branch as a patch series solves many of
>>>>>> problems surprisingly well. All the other solutions I can think of
>>>>>> require one or more things I don't really want to do: rebase the
>>>>>> debian/master branch, not be able to run dpkg-buildpackage from the
>>>>>> debian/master branch easily, or require that dpkg-buildpackage do
>>>>>> more mucking about with source control than I want it to.
>>>>>
>>>>>I believe the git-dpm approach would give you everything you want. The
>>>>>explanation on http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/ is pretty good.
>>>>>
>>>>>I personally think that technically git-dpm's approach is the best -
>>>>>but
>>>>>unfortunately the program itself is effectively unmaintained and
>>>>>apparently/consequently not used by many people.
>>>>
>>>> The Debian Python Modules Team (DPMT) has about 1,000 packages with
>>>> git-dpm repositories. While it took a bit of getting used to and
>>>> there have been a few problems, overall I think it's worked very well.
>>>> It's biggest problem is the lack of a maintainer.
>>>
>>> There have been a lot of complaints about it. For me, it is a pain to
>>> use. Its integration with gbp is poor,
>>
>> Well, I think that is because it is mostly an *alternative* to
>> gbp. Other than gbp dch (which I think should work fine), what features
>> of gbp would you like to use with git-dpm?
>
> gbp import-orig --uscan (the whole import with git-dpm is flawed, there
> are too many ways to fail, like a patch that cannot be rebased and the
> pristine-tar branch is not updated, like the previous upstream was not
> tagged because not released [and git-dpm only tags upstream when master
> is tagged] and it fails in the middle of the process, gbp rollbacks when
> there is a problem).
I agree that's a mess. But I would much rather see the git-dpm import
fixed than interoperability with gbp increased.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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