Bug#535767: Allow for debian/-only repositories

2009-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 10:41:53PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi zack, Howdy (but note that devscripts, including debcheckout, is maintained by way more people than me alone ;-)) One option, which I find appealing, is to only store the contents of the debian/ directory in the VCS. This

Bug#535767: Allow for debian/-only repositories

2009-07-05 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 05.07.2009, 10:57 +0200 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 10:41:53PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi zack, Howdy (but note that devscripts, including debcheckout, is maintained by way more people than me alone ;-)) I checked the manpage for the

Bug#535767: Allow for debian/-only repositories

2009-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:35:58AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: I knew I saw something like that once. svn-buildpackage even has code to to fetch the tarball from the archive or, when not found, via watch. Thanks for the code, I did not know that. Still, duplicating code is always bad. So, if

Bug#535767: Allow for debian/-only repositories

2009-07-05 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Zack, Am Sonntag, den 05.07.2009, 15:03 +0200 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:35:58AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: I knew I saw something like that once. svn-buildpackage even has code to to fetch the tarball from the archive or, when not found, via watch.

Bug#535767: Allow for debian/-only repositories

2009-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:52:27PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Thanks for the code, I did not know that. Still, duplicating code is always bad. So, if we really want to go this way, I'd prefer to add support to debcheckout to invoke some kind of hooks, and have this as a possible hook.

Bug#535767: Allow for debian/-only repositories

2009-07-05 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 05.07.2009, 18:53 +0200 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: I haven’t worked with get-orig-source before. Is it a standard? I thought it’s only a thin people use personally. Yup, is in policy. It is the target to use if your upstream tarball needs some kind of mangling (e.g.,

Bug#535767: Allow for debian/-only repositories

2009-07-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:09:37PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Is it really desirable to use an imperative feature (run this Makefile rule to get the tarball), when there is a declarative way of doing it (the watch file) as well? Yes, but that discussion does not belong here. Check policy,

Bug#535767: Allow for debian/-only repositories

2009-07-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.52 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/debcheckout -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi zack, while setting up the pkg-haskell group, we had some discussions on the VCS layout. One option, which I find appealing, is to only store the contents of the