gregor herrmann: > > run pristine-tar commit with the downloaded tarball against > > upstream/$VERSION > > What's the advantage of this approach over just using > git-import-orig? As I said, that the debian packaging shares git history with upstreams master branch.
I've used this advantage once with GWT. I had to patch upstream to revert a change. Since I have the upstream history I could just run git revert to have a proper patch for debian/patches. It's also a nice thing if you interact with upstream to have the upstream git history at your hand. And I prefer to have one git repo instead of two. It might also be handy to package upstream snapshot from git commits even if upstream hasn't released a tarball. I don't see any disadvantage with this approach, only that there's no automated toolset yet AFAIK. Having upstreams history included shouldn't consume much more disk space then the git-import-orig approach. Actually I just filled wishbug #694955 to let git-import-orig support this workflow. Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201212021804.48095.tho...@koch.ro
