Re: New package maintainer (assistant)

2012-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Koch writes: > gregor herrmann: >> What's the advantage of this approach over just using git-import-orig? > As I said, that the debian packaging shares git history with upstreams > master branch. git-import-orig --upstream-vcs-tag will retain that property while still letting you use git

Re: New package maintainer (assistant)

2012-12-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:04:45 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: > gregor herrmann: > > > run pristine-tar commit with the downloaded tarball against > > > upstream/$VERSION > > What's the advantage of this approach over just using > > git-import-orig? > As I said, that the debian packaging shares git histo

Re: New package maintainer (assistant)

2012-12-02 Thread Thomas Koch
gregor herrmann: > > run pristine-tar commit with the downloaded tarball against > > upstream/$VERSION > > What's the advantage of this approach over just using > git-import-orig? As I said, that the debian packaging shares git history with upstreams master branch. I've used this advantage once

Re: New package maintainer (assistant)

2012-12-02 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:41:00 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: > > I guess you create an upstream source tarball and use "git-import-orig" > > to merge this into the 'upstream' branch of the debian git repo. > I don't create an upstream source tarball. I download upstreams official > release tarball. >

Re: Questions about simplyhtml[-freeplane] package

2012-12-02 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 02/12/12 10:56, Thomas Koch wrote: Eric Lavarde: => there are three options: Have you considered to patch the Debian version of freeplane to your needs? man dpkg-source, search: "3.0 (quilt)" http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/07/04/how-to-prepare-patches-for-debian- packages/ http://dep

Re: Questions about simplyhtml[-freeplane] package

2012-12-02 Thread Thomas Koch
Eric Lavarde: > > => there are three options: Have you considered to patch the Debian version of freeplane to your needs? man dpkg-source, search: "3.0 (quilt)" http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/07/04/how-to-prepare-patches-for-debian- packages/ http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ Regards, Thomas Koc

Re: New package maintainer (assistant)

2012-12-02 Thread Thomas Koch
Felix Natter: > Concerning the import of the upstream source into the debian pkg repo: > > I guess you create an upstream source tarball and use "git-import-orig" > to merge this into the 'upstream' branch of the debian git repo. I don't create an upstream source tarball. I download upstreams offi