On Thu, Jun 25 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:20:51 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>>
>> > As far as branches are concerned, the default branch should point to
>> > the debian packaging branch and that's it.
>>
>> And how do you do that, when the debian and upstream repos are the same?
>> That seems to be a fairly arbitrary limitation.
>
> It depends on the Vcs, bzr URL include the branch for instance.
>
> In the case of git, I don't have any nice answer. But you can always setup
> a mirror on git.debian.org where HEAD points to the right branch.
>
> Or we can define a standardized name. If the branch "debian" exists, it
> should be used, otherwise "master" is supposed to be the debian packaging
> branch.
I would object to that being put into policy, since it would
make all of my packages RC-buggy; since no branch the package code
contains any debian packaging. Assuming that some branch contains
packaging seems like a failure of theimagination to me.
Hint: All my debian packaging is in a submodule.
manoj
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