Re: making dput a wrapper around git [and 1 more messages]

2014-11-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Neil Williams writes ("Re: making dput a wrapper around git"): > On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:48:10 +0100 > Daniel Pocock wrote: > > If an upload to NEW is rejected though then the "-1" version is not > > known to the archive and should be used again for a fixed

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:48:10 +0100 Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 18/11/14 16:43, Ian Jackson wrote: > > If an upload to NEW is rejected though then the "-1" version is not > known to the archive and should be used again for a fixed upload > shouldn't it? No. You simply upload to NEW with use of the

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 18/11/14 16:43, Ian Jackson wrote: > Daniel Pocock writes ("Re: making dput a wrapper around git"): >> One of the problems with a VCS right now though is the order of events >> required to make a tag. If I tag and then upload and my upload is >> rejected for

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes ("Re: making dput a wrapper around git"): > One of the problems with a VCS right now though is the order of events > required to make a tag. If I tag and then upload and my upload is > rejected for any reason then the tag is not valid. dgit's answe

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 18/11/14 15:23, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> That is not a Git-specific issue, it is a general issue with source-only >> uploads. If source-only uploads become the norm then signed tags should >> be the same as source packages shouldn't they? > Absolut

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Daniel Pocock: > This is probably tangential to the ongoing DEP-14 and source-only upload > discussions > > How would people feel if dput was a wrapper around git? > How would you feel about forking Debian and switching an all-in-git maintainance+build infrastructure? -- -- Matthias Urlich

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Daniel Pocock wrote: > That is not a Git-specific issue, it is a general issue with source-only > uploads. If source-only uploads become the norm then signed tags should > be the same as source packages shouldn't they? Absolutely not! (Hint: .orig.tar.gz, often several. And

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 18/11/14 11:17, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/18/2014 09:45 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> How would people feel if dput was a wrapper around git? > I think its not a good idea. It has too many problems, see below. I agree it is not a trivial idea and is unlikely to appeal to everybody >

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes ("making dput a wrapper around git"): > How would people feel if dput was a wrapper around git? If you would like to work in a world where dput was a wrapper around git, then please install dgit and spell `dput' as `dgit push'. If you do that then

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Ben Finney
Daniel Pocock writes: > For packages that do use git as the VCS, dput would do a "git tag" and > "git push", possibly using branches specifically intended for release. I don't think ‘dput’ should be creating anything in the VCS. Instead, the tagging and the ‘dput’ should be parallel and independ

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Daniel Pocock wrote: > How would people feel if dput was a wrapper around git? dpkg --purge dput -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silic

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 11/18/2014 09:45 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > How would people feel if dput was a wrapper around git? I think its not a good idea. It has too many problems, see below. > This wouldn't imply that maintainers must use Git as their VCS > > For packages that do use git as the VCS, dput would d

Re: making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:45:03 +0100 Daniel Pocock wrote: > This is probably tangential to the ongoing DEP-14 and source-only > upload discussions > > How would people feel if dput was a wrapper around git? That's a daft idea. Please drop it. It presumes that dput is only used for Debian uploads

making dput a wrapper around git

2014-11-18 Thread Daniel Pocock
This is probably tangential to the ongoing DEP-14 and source-only upload discussions How would people feel if dput was a wrapper around git? This wouldn't imply that maintainers must use Git as their VCS For packages that do use git as the VCS, dput would do a "git tag" and "git push", possibl