On Wed, 05 Sep 2018, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Yaroslav, > On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 07:51:52PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > The interesting aspect is that upstream repo provides git submodule > > testing/data . It is not that large - just 15 MB compressed but it > > doesn't change frequently. There is two ways to handle it: > > - "Lazy" me would love just to wrap it in the mrtrix3 source > > package (not yet sure what will be "upstream source releases", I > > am packaging straight from git). It would be super easy thanks to gbp > > ability to include submodules (I do it for dcm2niix neurodebian pkg) > > - Debian soul in me says "spend more time and generate one more > > source/binary package which would be useless of the mrtrix3 context. > > What do you think? > I know there is some way to create pristine-tar from plain Git packaging. > I'd be really happy if you would consider this since it enables other > team members to rebuild the package with the workflow described in team > policy. I do not think pristine-tar would work with git submodules, thus requiring a delta of the size of the testing/data . gbp can be used to produce .orig.tar.gz and I have added https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/mrtrix3/blob/debian/debian/gbp.conf which instructs to package submodules as well, so anyone could generate a new .orig.tgz for the new upload, and fetch from packages.d.o for an existing version. Is there a better way? -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
