Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 11/11/19 6:30 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Yes, and that's why I use debian/master instead of debian/buster or > debian/bullseye. :-) > > When I do create debian/buster (once it became the stable branch), the > first thing I did after I branched off debian/buster from > debian/master was t

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/14/19 1:59 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Let me try to be more specific. Many packages are maintained by people > who use gbp. Many packages have pristine-tar branches but do not have > "pristine-tar = True" set. When I work on one of these packages (and I > work on many packages with many mainta

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 19:59:07 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Let me try to be more specific. Many packages are maintained by people > who use gbp. Many packages have pristine-tar branches but do not have > "pristine-tar = True" set. When I work on one of these packages (and I > work on many package

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 5:23 AM Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/11/19 12:50 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > It is absolutely not possible to set the correct > > pristine-tar=True/False in ~/.gbp.conf to work with your packages > > (which avoid pristine-tar) and the vast majority of gbp packages in > > D

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/13/19 1:53 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Except for not agreeing with your opinion about pristine-tar I agree that > debian/gbp.conf is frequently not very helpful and flooded with unneeded > options sometimes. It really makes sense to use ~/.gbp.conf instead. This was the single and only poin

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf

2019-11-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille writes: > From time to time I hear this statement. I can confirm that in all > teams I'm working on pristine-tar belongs to the team policy and I never > experienced in those > 2000 packages I've touched any problem with this. > For me this makes some statistically relevant set whi

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf

2019-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:37:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Theodore Y. Ts'o" writes: > > > Yes, and that's why I use debian/master instead of debian/buster or > > debian/bullseye. :-) > > > When I do create debian/buster (once it became the stable branch), the > > first thing I did after

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:23:08AM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > If you're rebuilding a package which is already in the archive, you're > supposed to take the .orig.tar.xz from the archive, and if not, you're > supposed to generate it with git archive (or with the shortcut for that > command: .

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/11/19 12:50 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 2:59 AM Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 11/11/19 1:02 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:20:45PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: Please, *never* do that. It's generally a very bad idea to write anyt

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf

2019-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" writes: > Yes, and that's why I use debian/master instead of debian/buster or > debian/bullseye. :-) > When I do create debian/buster (once it became the stable branch), the > first thing I did after I branched off debian/buster from debian/master > was to edit debian/gbp.con

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-11 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 08:58:42AM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Please, *never* do that. It's generally a very bad idea to write > >> anything to debian/gbp.conf. It's as if you were adding your text editor > >> preferences in the package. Instead, please prefer writing in ~/.gbp.conf. > > >

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 2:59 AM Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/11/19 1:02 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:20:45PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> > >> Please, *never* do that. It's generally a very bad idea to write > >> anything to debian/gbp.conf. It's as if you were

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/11/19 1:02 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:20:45PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> >> Please, *never* do that. It's generally a very bad idea to write >> anything to debian/gbp.conf. It's as if you were adding your text editor >> preferences in the package. Instead, p

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-10 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:20:45PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Please, *never* do that. It's generally a very bad idea to write > anything to debian/gbp.conf. It's as if you were adding your text editor > preferences in the package. Instead, please prefer writing in ~/.gbp.conf. I keep most

Re: please avoid writing useless/annoying stuff in debian/gbp.conf (was: source only upload with git-buildpackage)

2019-11-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/5/19 7:48 PM, Attila Szalay wrote: > I added the "pbuilder-options = --source-only-changes" option to the > [buildpackage] part of the debian/gbp.conf Please, *never* do that. It's generally a very bad idea to write anything to debian/gbp.conf. It's as if you were adding your text editor pre