On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:13:05 +0200 Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> wrote:
> 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. > I recall a discussion here[1 and followups] about a connected issue: another point of importing tarballs with pristine-tar was told to be the fact that .orig.tar.gz generated from git are not stable and thus there could be problems with DAK when re-uploading them. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/12/msg00044.html However I don't know if this remark is still valid with the current tools and workflows. Could anyone please clarify the situation? Thanks, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- 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/20130404152102.3678926809fa4e2999cbd...@studenti.unina.it
