* Otavio Salvador wrote: > Thierry Reding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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. > > That means we'll stop to use the quilt to manage the patches and leave > git to manage all delta between Debian and original upstream code?
That is still something that's up for discussion. I think stgit was being considered as an alternative to quilt for managing the Debian-specific patches. As I understand it, it's pretty much the same as quilt only it's using git as backend. Thierry
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