Author: plessy
Date: 2012-01-16 00:46:47 +0000 (Mon, 16 Jan 2012)
New Revision: 9292
Modified:
trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Documenting debian/gbp.conf.
Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2012-01-14 20:07:44 UTC (rev
9291)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2012-01-16 00:46:47 UTC (rev
9292)
@@ -625,6 +625,25 @@
<para>Packages hosted in our Subversion repository,
that have been modified but not uploaded must use <literal>UNRELEASED</literal>
as a distribution name. This can be done automatically by declaring
<literal><varname>DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC</varname>=<replaceable>changelog</replaceable></literal>
in <filename>~/.devscripts</filename> and using <command>dch</command>.</para>
</sect2>
+ <sect2 id="debian-gbp.conf">
+ <title><filename>debian/gbp.conf</filename></title>
+ <para>
+ Packages managed with
<command>git-buildpackage</command> may mark this
+ by including a <filename>debian/gbp.conf</filename>
configuration
+ file. The following recommended values will make
+ <command>pristine-tar</command> used by default, and
otherwise set a
+ directory layout similar to the one we use with
+ <command>svn-buildpackage</command>.<programlisting>
+[DEFAULT]
+pristine-tar = True
+
+[git-buildpackage]
+# use this for more svn-buildpackage like behaviour:
+export-dir = ../build-area/
+tarball-dir = ../tarballs/</programlisting>
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
<sect2 id="debian-readme-source">
<title><filename>debian/README.source</filename></title>
<para>This file is recommended by the Policy (<ulink
url="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource";>§ 4.14</ulink>)
from version 3.8.0 for documenting source package handling. Please follow the
recommendation. For instance, this file is needed when we use a patch system,
when the upstream sources are in another format than gzipped tar archive, when
we repack the sources,…</para>
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