Re: Git-buildpackage question: tracking upstream git and tarballs

2016-04-10 Thread Raphaël Halimi
Thanks to all who answered my questions. So, to summarize (and ensure I understood all answers correctly): - For packages which don't have intermediate files (things that don't need to be built, like scripts, static data, configuration files, or whatever), it's perfectly fine to have a single ups

Re: Git-buildpackage question: tracking upstream git and tarballs

2016-04-08 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > If you do this and intend to make your source package's repository easy to use > for collaborative maintenance, it will be good to document this workflow > somewhere (perhaps README.source ?) since it is not standard. Agreed. If getting a ready-to-modify-then-build worki

Re: Git-buildpackage question: tracking upstream git and tarballs

2016-04-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 03:25:08PM +0200, Raphaël Halimi a écrit : > > If I understand [1] and [2] correctly, one would need two upstream > branches : one originating from upstream, with the full commit history, > and one managed by gbp import-orig, which would contain upstream sources > imported

Re: Git-buildpackage question: tracking upstream git and tarballs

2016-04-07 Thread Ferenc Wágner
Raphaël Halimi writes: > I'm trying to fully understand the git-buildpackage workflow and I'm > kind of stuck on a specific part of the process, regarding the handling > of the upstream branch when upstream uses git but the maintainer still > wants to use pristine-tar to commit upstream tarballs.

Re: Git-buildpackage question: tracking upstream git and tarballs

2016-04-07 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, FYI borgbackup is following that style. cheers, G. Il Giovedì 7 Aprile 2016 17:49, Sean Whitton ha scritto: Hello, On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 03:25:08PM +0200, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > I'm not sure if this question belongs to -mentors or -devel, so I'll > post it here at first, feel free

Re: Git-buildpackage question: tracking upstream git and tarballs

2016-04-07 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 03:25:08PM +0200, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > I'm not sure if this question belongs to -mentors or -devel, so I'll > post it here at first, feel free to relocate/cc if you think it's > appropriate. -mentors is fine. > I'm trying to fully understand the git-buildpackage