Hi, I just send the following proposal to the debian-qt-kde team, kubuntu-devel is not CC'd for moderation reasons, you can follow and take part in the discussion at https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk
Philip ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: RFC: Moving kubuntu packaging branches to pkg-kde git Date: Tuesday 03 June 2014, 22:00:46 From: Philip Muskovac <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Hi pkg-kde team, as we're currently in another rather painful package merge cycle, and with kf5 and plasma next just outside the door we've been talking about how we could move our packaging branches over to debian git to help with the merging and the rather large about of work duplication on both sides. For the large amount of SC/KF5/plasma packages we use a mostly scripted workflow which we would like to keep using, so we came up with this git branch layout: - master: has the shared packaging and targets the latest upstream (beta?) release (which should really be everything as long as something doesn't cause a problem for the other team) - <series> (e.g. unstable, utopic): has any distribution specific changes that cannot be kept in master (like specific patches, recommends/suggests changes for archive reasons) and is used to generate the actual archive packages for that specific series. While I believe that this mostly should work fine, at this point I'm not quite sure how to manage the changelog. OdyX suggested generating it from the git commit messages which I think would work out best, as we could then keep our respective distribution changelogs and only share the change messages. A while ago I talked with maxy about commit access permissions, but for now I don't believe this would be an issue as most kubuntu packagers already are members of pkg-kde. For now, I would propose trying this shared repository idea out with the new kf5 and later also the plasma packages as you don't have any repositories for those yet. Would this be something you would consider? It would help us a lot as this would prevent us spending weeks to merge our packages and you would already have the changes for a new release in master when you plan to switch to it. Cheers, Philip Muškovac (yofel) Kubuntu Developer ----------------------------------------- -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
