Re: git-dpm -> gbp conversion (mass-change)

2018-08-08 Thread Brian May
Ruben Undheim writes: > There is no nightmare unless there are patch conflicts. The one case where you could have a "nightmare" is: 1. Maintainer A updates package to latest upstream version. 2. Maintainer A uploads packages to Debian, and it is accepted. 3. Maintainer A forgets to push changes

Re: git-dpm -> gbp conversion (mass-change)

2018-08-08 Thread Brian May
Nikolaus Rath writes: > The problems with git-dpm are the implementation and lack of > maintenance, not the way the Debian changes are managed. git-dpm requires that you always use its tools. If another maintainer got confused and used another toolset to upgrade the upstream version, things cou

Re: git-dpm -> gbp conversion (mass-change)

2018-08-08 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Aug 08 2018, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 08/08/2018 01:38 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> That doesn't make sense to me. git-dpm maintains (and rebases) Debian >> patches separately, so upgrading to a new upgrade release can >> principally not be any harder than with gbp. > > It is a nightmare when

Re: git-dpm -> gbp conversion (mass-change)

2018-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/08/2018 03:55 PM, Ruben Undheim wrote: > Hi, > >> The problem with git-debrebase will be the same as with git-dpm. As soon >> as you try to upgrade / merge a new upstream release, you dive into a >> rebase/conflict nightmare. > > So in other words, you prefer to solve the same conflicts man

Re: git-dpm -> gbp conversion (mass-change)

2018-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/08/2018 01:38 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > That doesn't make sense to me. git-dpm maintains (and rebases) Debian > patches separately, so upgrading to a new upgrade release can > principally not be any harder than with gbp. It is a nightmare when patches are conflicting. > The problems with g

Re: git-dpm -> gbp conversion (mass-change) [phase 1 DONE]

2018-08-08 Thread Ondrej Novy
Hi, pá 3. 8. 2018 v 5:06 odesílatel Ondrej Novy napsal: > 1. convert git-dpm -> gbp > this is done. -- Best regards Ondřej Nový Email: n...@ondrej.org PGP: 3D98 3C52 EB85 980C 46A5 6090 3573 1255 9D1E 064B

Re: git-dpm -> gbp conversion (mass-change)

2018-08-08 Thread Ruben Undheim
Hi, > The problem with git-debrebase will be the same as with git-dpm. As soon > as you try to upgrade / merge a new upstream release, you dive into a > rebase/conflict nightmare. So in other words, you prefer to solve the same conflicts manually with quilt/quilt refresh or get similar but worse

Re: git-dpm -> gbp conversion (mass-change)

2018-08-08 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Aug 08 2018, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 08/04/2018 09:05 AM, Ruben Undheim wrote: >> Hi, >> 2/ Ondrej Novy will do a mass-change from git-dpm to gbp on team packages. Related to this, Piotr will review and amend the team policy if necessary, as well as work on the pipeline

Re: git-dpm -> gbp conversion (mass-change)

2018-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/04/2018 09:05 AM, Ruben Undheim wrote: > Hi, > >>> 2/ Ondrej Novy will do a mass-change from git-dpm to gbp on team packages. >>> Related to this, Piotr will review and amend the team policy if necessary, >>> as >>> well as work on the pipeline to make sure the policy gets published from >>>