Re: Bug#737634: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:13:45 +0100 Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote: Sigh. On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:59:23PM +, Neil Williams wrote: Using packages to support upstream development is a common problem /common problem/common source of problems/ and this is exactly where things

Re: Bug#737634: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Sigh. On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:59:23PM +, Neil Williams wrote: Using packages to support upstream development is a common problem and this is exactly where things get awkward. No, it is not a *problem*; it is a *method* of doing things. It is not your place (nor mine) to question

Re: Bug#737634: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-05 Thread Sam Hartman
Andreas == Andreas Beckmann a...@debian.org writes: Andreas On 2014-02-05 10:57, Sam Hartman wrote: tarballs useful; anyone who is likely to want to build this from source probably has a copy of git and can checkout a tag. Andreas Such a tag corresponds to an upstrema version?

Re: Bug#737634: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:21:30 + Sam Hartman hartm...@debian.org wrote: Andreas == Andreas Beckmann a...@debian.org writes: Andreas On 2014-02-05 10:57, Sam Hartman wrote: tarballs useful; anyone who is likely to want to build this from source probably has a copy of git and

Re: Bug#737634: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-05 Thread Sam Hartman
Neil == Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: That makes sense and I do something similar as appropriate. Even so, I do not wish to maintain the upstream tarball as a maintained artifact. There are cases where packaging release releases are made. Maintaining pristine-tar commits for daily

Re: Bug#737634: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Sam Hartman hartm...@debian.org [140205 13:27]: no, that means I have to maintain the artifact (namely the .orig.tar.gz). The archive software (both reprepro and dak were I to use that) require that the .orig.tar.gz not change checksums. I don't want my build machines to be able to push

Re: Bug#737634: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-05 Thread Sam Hartman
Bernhard == Bernhard R Link brl...@debian.org writes: As I mentioned I have a packaging branch and an upstream branch. I wish to use debian revisions to reflect packaging changes. It's slightly more complex than changes to debian directory involve a debian revision change; changes to other