On 20-11-2010, Ralf Treinen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > these days we are (or ar least we should be) mostly using the experimental > distribution for uploads. In that case it seems reasonable to put > modifications on a git branch that is specific to that distribution. > This of course also applies to other branches, like for backporting. > > It would be nice if we could agree on canonical names for these branches > in the git repository. Personally, I have been using "master-experimental", > which is a PITA to type, but I also have seen "experimetal" which is > probably less acurate but much more convenient. > > I suggest that we add to the dom packaging reference that branches intended > for primary release into a distribution should be named like that > distribution, that is experimental, squeeze, whatever-backport, etc, with > the exception that the branch for sid is called master. Does that sound > reasonable? > > In that case I would also suggest that dom-git-checkout also pulls the > experimental branch when it exists. >
I agree on everything, but would vote for the "experimental" name. My reason: you won't have upstream-experimental or pristine-tar-experimental. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
