On Thursday 06 November 2008 00:19:38 Reijo Tomperi wrote: > >>> - Vcs-((Git|SVN|..)|Browser) is missing in control. If you use a vcs to > >>> manage your debian package - please add these. > >> > >> I'm not using, but I have submitted the man page to the upstream so it > >> can be found from there. > > > > You should try to use one to keep track of different versions and > > branches (stable, testing, unstable and maybe special ubuntu branches). > > There are different helper packages for that `apt-cache search -n > > buildpackage`. It is not a must or should. I've just noticed that > > decentralised vcs works just fine for that. > > Sounds like a good advice, I will need to investigate that later. I'm > thinking about using git as it has pretty good support for branches. There are many projects using git-buildpackage. You can find some of them by googling for `site:packages.qa.debian.org vcs "git (browse)"`.
Small tipp for using it: sign your tags and use pristine-tar. The initial import can be done by: mkdir cppcheck cd cppcheck git init git import-orig --pristine-tar --sign-tags ../cppcheck_1.25.orig.tar.gz git-import-dscs --pristine-tar --sign-tags ../cppcheck_1.25-1.dsc ../cppcheck_1.25-2.dsc ../cppcheck_1.25-3.dsc cat << EOF > debian/gbp.conf [DEFAULT] pristine-tar = True sign-tags = True EOF git add debian/gbp.conf git commit -m "Enable pristine-tar and sign-tags for gbp" You can google a little bit for `(gitorious | github) debian package "git buildpackage"` to find some more informations about using public git hosting with git buildpackage > But > if I use only local git, do I need to or should I edit the control file? > If so what exactly am I supposed to put there? No, if you only use it locally it doesn't make sense to add such information to debian/control. Otherwise you should add something like: Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-cppchecker/cppchecker Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-cppchecker/cppchecker.git or if you use something like gitorious: Vcs-Git: git://gitorious.org/cppchecker/mainline.git Vcs-Browser: http://gitorious.org/projects/cppchecker/repos/mainline/trees -- Robert Wohlrab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
