On Aug 09, 2014, at 06:02 PM, Brian May wrote: >At the moment, in subversion, we only store the debian/* directory. Is >there any requirement/benefit in putting the full upstream source in git >too?
If it were well integrated with quilt, I think it would be fine to have source-full branches. I like this aspect of UDD, but I've also become comfortable working with our svn debian-only branches. It usually means unpacking the tarball, cd'ing into that directory and symlinking in debian/ to work with the patch stack. It's a bit jarring though, since I have to go back to the svn branch directory to build the packages (source or binary), so I'm always flipping between the two directories. The other thing that *has* to work flawlessly for source-full checkouts is importing new upstream versions. If you do this naively in a UDD branch, you're screwed. `bzr merge-upstream` is the trick to make this work, since it updates the upstream source to match the tarball. I think this step should re-apply the quilt stack automatically, but of course scream loudly if it gets to a patch that is out of date. I guess I can summarize this as comfort != joy. :) -Barry
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