On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 06:18:44AM +0000, Warlich, Christof wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a bit desperate to find out how the Debian project maintains > its patches w.r.t. upstream repositories. Thus, while I can > explore the _current_ patches of a package by looking at the > "*.debian.tar.gz"-archive after obtaining its sources through "apt-get > source <package-name>", I'd be rather interested in both history > and future of these patches along the lifetime of a Debian releases' > maintainance period. > > At the first glance, things look quite straight forward: Starting > with, say, the "glibc"-package, an "apt-get source glibc" tells me > that I may get the git repo of the related Debian patches by cloning > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-glibc/glibc.git. But as it turns > out, this (and some other Debian) hosts went offline as they are being > replaced by https://salsa.debian.org. So I finally get what I am looking > for by cloning https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc.git. Great. > > Getting rather encouraged by that, I tried to find > the repo for the "binutils" patches. Again, "apt-get > source binutils" tells me that I should get it from > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doko/binutils/pkg-2.28-debian. And again, > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doko/binutils/pkg-2.28-debian is gone. But > this time, I couldn't find a substitute on https://salsa.debian.org. > > Further looking around, it seems that there are still quite a few > (if not most!) packages still missing on https://salsa.debian.org, > although this transition was, as I recall, supposed to be completed > by the end of Mai 2018. > > So finally, here is my question: When may I expect that > VCS-repositories for all Debian packages may be available through > https://salsa.debian.org (including updates of the packages to point to > the new repository location on https://salsa.debian.org as printed by > "apt-get source") and what could I do in the meantime w.r.t. packages > like binutils, which are obviously gone from their old place, while > they are still not available on https://salsa.debian.org?
I think original poster is unaware of `debcheckout` from the package `devscripts`. `debcheckout PACKAGE` does "VCS checkout (or cloning) of PACKAGE" Checkout URL is taken from debian/control Vcs-Vcs: There is no must on "git" and "salsa" > Many thanks for any insight on that topic, sudo apt install devscripts debcheckout PACKAGE Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
