On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 09:38 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Felipe Sateler <fsate...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> > Is this really the intended way? TBH, I have doubts, and would find it > >> > more natural if the patches would be applied to the debian branch then, > >> > as it would retain the invariant that a git checkout produces a similar > >> > view of the source as a 'dpkg-source -x' on the produced source package. > >> > > >> > >> Yeap this is intended way. > >> > >> dpkg-source -x applies patches and leaves you with a patched tree. > >> That's the mail reason for the new format. > >> > >> Unfortunately git-buildpackage has not yet been updated to handle this > >> in a better way. Cause we still should have debain/patches/*.patch > >> > >> And I have no clue how to handle this =) > > > > > > I have been suggested to apply all patches on the git repo, but this > > would break the guidelines in the wiki. > > When given these options: > > 1: switch back to source v1 > 2: apply patches inline to the debian branch (and amend the wiki) > 3: leave the patches unapplied (current situation) > > I would (currently) vote 1>2>3 > > Rationale: switching to v3 at this point introduces even more > inconsistency in our packaging and obviously our advocated tool > 'git-buildpackage' doesn't cope with this new format properly yet. > > While I am not opposed at all to the new format, and besides, I'm really > looking forward using it, I don't think that our team is ready for it yet. > > what do you think?
I agree. There is no hurry to move to 3.0, so we can wait for tools to adapt to it. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
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