Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: > Here's a maybe-stupid idea: use http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep14/ branch > naming (debian/master, debian/experimental) for that branch, and switch to > it as the default branch (edit foo.git/HEAD on alioth) when unfreezing > and "officially" switching to gbp-pq?
One thing we could do right now, for selected packages, is create a debian/experimental branch, switch to gbp-pq, update to latest upstream, and upload to experimental. This will not interfere in any way to do updates to unstable/testing - which still use the master branch, and similarly won't cause any confusion which branch to use. These packages that we do this to probably should be excluded from any post-freeze automatic bulk switch to gbp-pq however. As the procedure is likely to different (unless there are changes in the master branch, this probably just involve creating a new debian/master branch from debian/experimental and deleting the old master branch). It might pay to have a list somewhere of packages that have already been converted to gbp-pq, and what branches. Of course it is easy to autodetect this too, just look for the presence of a debian/.git-dpm file in that selected branches. Before doing any automated conversion, we should make the following checks on the following branches: * master: exists and has debian/.git-dpm file * debian/master: this branch should not exist - no DPMT package should be using this branch name yet. * debian/experimental: if this exists it should have a debian/.git-dpm If any of these checks fails, the respository should be converted manually. Or it might be an indication that the repository is already in the required format. Any other branches are probably not that important for the initial conversion and can be done manually as required. Assuming at the moment, that only few packages would require manual processing, otherwise this may require a rethink. -- Brian May <b...@debian.org>
