On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:00:20AM +0100, Narcis Garcia wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to maintain a small project in my public Git, and to > have an easy way to build a package for Debian OS obtaining a good/clean > result. > After this, I will try to deploy my APT repository or contact some > sponsor for Debian official repository. > > I'm executing this but I don't identify the problem: > $ git-buildpackage > Can the Git content be bad? Lack of files? Unnecessary files? Bad structure?
Note that "packaging with git" is very distinct from "packaging with git-buildpackage". The latter, despite the name, is merely one of many possible workflows, and a very idiosyncratic one. It also suffers from treating quilt as a god rather than an abomination it is. Using version control checked into another version control is a disaster. Even just using git directly without any helpers is, IMO, much better -- you can conveniently transfer patches both ways between your and upstream repository, at every point you get an appropriate form for modification -- you can just hack on the code (with something quilt-based you need to finalize patches after every incremental edit), etc. Another option, much liked by everyone I hear, is dgit -- I only looked at its very first iteration, though, with no tuits to check out a modern version yet so I can't give meaningful advice, but a git-using workflow that's not based on quilt can't possibly be worse than gbp :) Meow! -- Autotools hint: to do a zx-spectrum build on a pdp11 host, type: ./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11
