Thomas Goirand scrisse: > I've found that having a debian/rules entry called "get-vcs-source" > which gets what is needed from upstream works quite nicely. Our > workflow is described here: > > http://openstack.alioth.debian.org/ > > The idea to use "git archive" was mostly from Julien Danjou. It's > very nice because that way, we can use xz compression, instead > of what upstream provides (that is, github .zip or .tar.gz, which > isn't the best). It's also quite nice because that way, it's possible > to tag a specific commit and package that as upstream release. > This is mostly why I think using Git is convenient, so I really would > like this to be part of the draft.
This may suit well for the openstack scenario, however in general I could see at least two shortcomings: * pristine upstream tarballs are not used (see the first "should" in devref §6.7.8.2) * it assumes that no tarball generation process (eg. make dist) is needed I'm not sure how much impact they have on normal python-team workflow, though. Cheers, Luca -- .''`. | ~<[ Luca BRUNO ~ (kaeso) ]>~ : :' : | Email: lucab (AT) debian.org ~ Debian Developer `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 0x3BFB9FB3 ~ Free Software supporter `- | HAM-radio callsign: IZ1WGT ~ Networking sorcerer
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