Author: plessy
Date: 2010-11-26 01:18:25 +0000 (Fri, 26 Nov 2010)
New Revision: 5518
Modified:
trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Mention git-import-orig.
This is way easier to use this than to update the upstream and pristine-tar
branches by hand.
Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2010-11-26 01:02:08 UTC (rev
5517)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2010-11-26 01:18:25 UTC (rev
5518)
@@ -210,6 +210,11 @@
</itemizedlist>
<para>It is also possible to prepare a Git repository
containing some of the package's history using the command
<command>git-import-dscs --debsnap</command> from the helper toolkit
<command>git-buildpackage</command>. This will download all the versions of a
package available in <ulink
url="http://snapshot.debian.org";>snapshots.debian.org</ulink> and create tags
for each of them. Note that as this paragraph is written, the tool is not aware
that <emphasis>backports</emphasis> should be a different branch</para>
</sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Updating a source package managed with Git</title>
+ <para>Most source packages maintained as Git repositories in
Debian Med are using the <command>git-buildpackage</command> helper toolkit. In
doubt, try this one first.</para>
+ <para><command>git-buildpackage</command>'s command
<command>git-import-orig</command> allows very easy update of the
<emphasis>upstream</emphasis> branch when the original sources are distributed
as a compressed archive. Its option <command>--pristine-tar</command> is useful
for stablizing the MD5 sum of the “<filename>orig.tar.gz</filename>” produced
when building a source package from the repository alone (not doing so results
in archive rejection of package updates). With recent versions of
git-buildpackage, it is often unnecessary to rename the freshly downloaded
original upstream archive.</para>
+ </sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Packaging</title>
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