On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > I don't think that this would be very useful. VCS usage can vary quite a > bit and more often then not will not contain any usefull information. > (like some branch just always merged with the upstreams has not much > information except the diff to the unmodified version).
Huh? For the same reason that it's good to standardize on one patch system, I think it would be good to promote a small set of sane VCS-based workflows so that people don't have to evaluate all external *-buildpackage helpers and their associated workflows when they want to start using a VCS for package maintenance. That said, we're still in the experimentation stage when it comes to VCS and package maintenance so it might be a bit early to integrate it in dpkg-dev. But there's no reason we couldn't experiment in dpkg-dev itself, provided that we make it clear that things might change in incompatible ways. > Back to how dpkg-source can help: What I'm missing (don't know if this > is a feature request or a request for better documentation) is some > option to tell dpkg-source (ideally in a way that is already passed down > from dpkg-buildpackage) that in case of a "3.0 (quilt)" package no new > patch should be created but if there are changes not yet recorded in > debian/patches it should abort with an error. There's no such option currently. But you can pass arbitrary options to dpkg-source from dpkg-buildpackage since 1.15.6. Feel free to submit a wishlist bugreport for this. But I expect that the easiest to implement will be to fail if debian/patches/debian-changes-<ver> is about to be created. > And it would be nice if .gitattributes would be ignored like .gitignore. Committed to git. > And if it would not include debian/.git-dpm into the debian.tar.gz by default, > too. Hum, I'm more reluctant for this one. I suggest you put “tar-ignore = "debian/.git-dpm"” in debian/source/options. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100328141026.ga16...@rivendell
