Quoting Felipe Sateler (2013-04-08 06:56:51) > 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?
Not sure what you mean, Felipe. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
