On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Reinhard Tartler (2013-04-06 09:32:04) >> Recently, Russ' blog post was echoed on http://planet.debian.org: >> >> http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2013-04/001.html >> >> In that post, he describes how to combine both the "import tarball" >> and the "have upstream history" available in the upstream packaging >> branch. AFAIUI, the heavy work is implemented in git-buildpackage's >> --upstream-vcs-tag <tag> option. >> >> While that option is news to me, I wonder if maybe anyone else already >> experiments with this? Does the team feel that making it mandatory for >> our package would be beneficial and appropriate? > > I have (way more complex) practiced that for a few years for Sugar > packages. Now that it has become dead simply to do with > git-buildpackage I wholeheartedly welcome mandating it - but only for > those of our upstreams that themselves use git, obviously.
I suppose fixing the history would be too time consuming? So the history would remain as imported tarballs? -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
