Hello Jeremy, i'm not sure if anybody replied to you so far. Your new upstream version is uploaded to debian sid and already entered debian testing :-)
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/so-synth-lv2 https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/so-synth-lv2 Best regards, Dennis Am 06.01.20 um 05:20 schrieb Jeremy Salwen: > Hello Debian Media Maintainers! > > I am the author of so-synth-lv2, and back in 2011, I created the initial > packaging for Debian, and with the help of Alessio Treglia, got it into > debian :) > > At the time I created the debian packaging in the same repository as the > upstream source, but the packaging was redone using exported tarballs > instead: https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/so-synth-lv2. > > Now I have a new upstream release, and I am wondering what is the best way > to proceed forward: > https://github.com/jeremysalwen/So-synth-LV2/releases/tag/upstream%2F1.5 > > I would like to keep a copy of the debian packaging in the upstream > repository, but the debian repository seems to have a separate upstream > branch based on exporting tarballs and reimporting them. Is this really > necessary? The documentation seems to suggest that you can just have a > workflow where you directly merge upstream into the debian master branch: > https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit#Using_the_upstream_repo > > Thanks, > Jeremy Salwen >

