Excerpts from Brian May's message of 2017-03-06 12:30:56 +1100: > The concept to convert from git-dpm to gbp pq is very very easy: > > 1. Delete debian/.git-dpm > 2. Unapply all patches. > 3. Commit and push. > > (repeat for all branches on all repositories) > > Step 2 is easier said then done. I can do it easy enough on my own > packages. I think we need a documented process anyone can follow. Plus > dealing with errors as required (e.g. if unapplying patches causes > conflicts due to non-compliant git-dpm package) - if anything like this > happens - hopefully on not many packages, these packages might require > manual processing. > > The obvious way "quilt pop -a" doesn't work, because the quilt .pc > directory does not exist, and quilt thinks the patches are already > unapplied. I sent an email previously with some (untested) suggestions I > had. >
Can we do this now, and push to a branch, so that when we unfreeze we can just 'git merge --ff-only' from master and then re-do any that fail?
