Hi all, The Debian X Strike Force is about to move their repository for X-related packages from SVN to git. The scripts we use for the migration seem pretty much finished, but there are a couple of issues that still need discussion.
I'm Cc'ing the X.org mailing list because we want to make it as easy as possible for you to see what we're doing and would appreciate any help or insights you could share. I guess the results of this discussion could be equally useful for other distributions that want to use git for packaging purposes. First of all is the question of the repository layout. What was clear from the start is that we'd like to mirror the directory structure from upstream. The second issue is what to do with the upstream sources. So far the alternatives we've been discussing are 1) having selected upstream branches cloned into our repositories and 2) leaving it up to the packager to use upstream branches in their local clones of the Debian repositories. Does any of these alternatives have a significant advantage over the other? Is there perhaps a different approach that would work even better? A very related issue is how to work with Debian-specific branches. Should we use a master branch which we keep the packaging files in and into which we merge/cherry-pick from the upstream branches as necessary? Or would it be better to have separate upstream and Debian branches and merge those two into the master branch? What we're looking for is the easiest way to pull and push patches so we can keep the difference between the Debian packages and upstream as small as possible. Those are the major issues I can currently think of, but if I've left something out feel free to raise anything you think could be important. - Thierry
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