Excerpts from Lucas Nussbaum's message of Thu May 19 09:39:20 -0700 2011: > On 19/05/11 at 07:44 -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: > > Excerpts from Antonio Terceiro's message of Wed May 18 13:50:47 -0700 2011: > > > Jérémy Lal escreveu isso aí: > > > > On 17/05/2011 22:25, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Please remember to create and push the pristine-tar branch, so that we > > > > > can recreate identical source packages from the git repo. > > > > > > > > > > If you use a squeeze development system, I don't think that it's an > > > > > issue: git import-orig will create the pristine-tar branch > > > > > automatically. If you don't, I'm not sure of what is going wrong, but > > > > > if > > > > > you find out, please document it in the RubyInWheezy wiki page. > > > > > > > > You might want to add a debian/gbp.conf file containing : > > > > [DEFAULT] > > > > pristine-tar = True > > > > sign-tags = True > > > > > > > > Another usage of that file that could be interesting to agree upon : > > > > That file also allows to deal with the case of having multiple versions > > > > (that have > > > > their own branches) of the same package, by adding : > > > > upstream-branch = <upstream branch name> > > > > debian-branch = <debian branch name> > > > > > > > > Since there is no consensus about that, let me propose something > > > > already used > > > > in some packages (i mean not only the ones i'm dealing with). > > > > To manage stable, unstable, experimental changes on versions of the > > > > same package, > > > > let's name them : > > > > master, upstream : for current work, unstable/testing > > > > master-experimental, upstream-experimental : work-in-progress > > > > master-stable, upstream-stable : for security updates > > > > > > > > then put debian/gbp.conf each master* branch, so that git-buildpackage, > > > > git-import-orig > > > > on those will not wreak havoc. > > > > It is obvious most packages won't need this, but when they do it's > > > > useful to have a > > > > common layout. > > > > > > > > Note : there is only one pristine-tar branch, in any case. > > > > > > I think that makes a lot o sense, and it would be nice to have some docs > > > on the wiki about how to manage packages in the team's repositories with > > > all these dos and don'ts, like we had in the past for the subversion > > > repos. There's a starting point already in the RubyInWheezy in wiki > > > page: > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/RubyInWheezy#Using_Git > > > > > > Volunteers? > > > > So I just clicked that link, having never maintained packags in git > > before, nor having ever used mr. It failed quite handily for me: > > > > clint@clint-MacBookPro:~/pkg/pkg-ruby-extras/pkg-ruby-extras$ mr checkout > > mr checkout: no repositories found to work on > > > > I tried running ./make-mrconfig .. which did do some SSH operations and > > filled up .mrconfig. But still, mr checkout does not pull down anything. > > > > Before I dive into mr's inner workings, maybe somebody else has a clue? > > > > I've attached the .mrconfig... > > Which version of mr are you using? By any chance, is it ancient?
Heh.. possibly.. 0.51 .. the version in Ubuntu 11.04. 1.03 does seem to work correctly. I added a note to the wiki page that versions prior to 1.03 may have problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
