On January 22, 2017 8:11:26 PM EST, Nikolaus Rath <nikol...@rath.org> wrote:
>On Jan 23 2017, Brian May <b...@debian.org> wrote:
>[ Convert from git-dpm to gbp ]
>> Or would dgit be a better option? I confuse I don't really understand
>> dgit.
>
>dgit can be used with both git-dpm and gbp. Moving to dgit-only would
>mean to use a single-debian-patch.

Which would be horrible.  single-debian-patch means that to understand the 
upstream modifications, access to the packaging VCS is required.  I think that 
would be a huge step backwards.

Downstream consumers of our packages, like the security team and derivatives, 
should be able to consume the source package as a complete, non-obfuscated 
representation of the source. I'm not sure it's even DFSG free since it's not 
the preferred form of modification for the packaging (we need to ship source 
for that too).

This is not saying we shouldn't change.  We probably either need to adopt 
git-dpm or switch to something else.  Let's just make sure it's not something 
that uses single-debian-patch.

Scott K

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