On 04/04/13 10:07, Jérémy Lal wrote: > On 04/04/2013 09:55, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've had a few discussions with people about the git workflow for packaging. >> >> I've now made a diagram about this that may be useful for people, it is >> relevant to autotools projects in particular: >> >> http://danielpocock.com/autotools-project-distribution-and-packaging-on-debian >> >> Please let me know if anything could be clarified further > Conondrum can be solved, as explained today by Russ Allbery : > > http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2013-04/001.html >
I actually think that the comments from Joey and Russ are both very valuable and it would be good to get everything together into a single document that explains both the dual-repository approach and the combined approach. My comments were not intended to (and do not prevent) what either of them is proposing. Certainly, it was meant to raise awareness of the fact that files from the upstream tarball may not be in upstream's tag: and I simply provide one way of dealing with it, a method that is used a lot and that was what I came across at the time I started contributing packages to Debian. Obviously the combined approach (Russ) is really only possible if upstream uses git, because of it's distributed nature. The dual-repository approach remains relevant if upstream is on CVS or SVN and the Debian packages are to be maintained with git. I'm happy to work some of this feedback and links to the other posts into my own blog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/515d4421.7010...@pocock.com.au
