Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-07 Thread Thomas Koch
On Wednesday, May 01, 2013 09:28:10 PM Daniel Pocock wrote: Would there be any hard objection to a source package format based on git-bundle? Hi Daniel, while I'm a big fan of Git, I don't see that much gain in a git based source package format. I also assume that it would be a lot of work

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:11:23PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: The fact is that Debian does not make much effort to ensure that we do not distribute unredistributable files in our mirrors and installation media, once a package has

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 04-05-13 05:04, Charles Plessy wrote: In any case, please refrain passive-aggressive statements on other people's projects. Except that this time the project we're talking about was one person asking another person can you clarify what I meant?, which seems to make no sense, at all. If you

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-04 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 04/05/13 08:17, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On 04-05-13 05:04, Charles Plessy wrote: In any case, please refrain passive-aggressive statements on other people's projects. Except that this time the project we're talking about was one person asking another person can you clarify what I

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:04:09PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: One thing not clear is whether people thought I was referring to using upstream repositories or alioth repositories (only containing commits from the maintainer) as the content of such source packages. Bernhard, could you

Re: Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-04 Thread V.Krishn
Some threads/links that I followed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00183.html http://danielpocock.com/autotools-project-distribution-and-packaging-on-debian http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/upstream_git_repositories/

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au [130501 21:28]: Would there be any hard objection to a source package format based on git-bundle? I think a git based source package has quite some problems. - failing to properly make changes visible While you can express every history-graph in git

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Daniel Pocock
) as the content of such source packages. Bernhard, could you comment on what you understood my intention was? On 03/05/13 18:50, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au [130501 21:28]: Would there be any hard objection to a source package format based on git-bundle? I think a git

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 07:43:17PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: One thing not clear is whether people thought I was referring to using upstream repositories or alioth repositories (only containing commits from the maintainer) as the content of such source packages. Bernhard, could you comment

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 03, 2013 at 06:50:22PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : - legal problems But the source packages are found on DVDs and mirrors all over the world. Many people help us distributing Debian. We owe them to do out best to keep them out of legal trouble for doing so. Hi

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 04, 2013 at 05:06:37AM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin a écrit : On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 07:43:17PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: One thing not clear is whether people thought I was referring to using upstream repositories or alioth repositories (only containing commits from the

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: The fact is that Debian does not make much effort to ensure that we do not distribute unredistributable files in our mirrors and installation media, once a package has passed its first copyright and license review. That is simply not

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:11:23PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: The fact is that Debian does not make much effort to ensure that we do not distribute unredistributable files in our mirrors and installation media, once a package has

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: It would be definitely a big undertaking, but the point I want to make is that one can not say that Git repositories could not be redistributed by Debian and at the same time be satisfied with the way we handle our packages currently. (And to make

git as a source package format?

2013-05-01 Thread Daniel Pocock
Just following up on the earlier discussion about VCS (not just git) in the packaging workflow Would there be any hard objection to a source package format based on git-bundle? In other words, dpkg-source would extract all repository history (or all of the branch used to build the package

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-01 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 01 May 2013 21:28:10 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: Would there be any hard objection to a source package format based on git-bundle? Like Format: 3.0 (git) in dpkg-source(1)? IIRC it works, it's just not allowed in the archive. Then again, some of that behavior could be achieved

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au writes: Would there be any hard objection to a source package format based on git-bundle? ftp-master has previously made a hard objection to using the package format in the Debian archives because of... - much harder to scan the whole history of the repo