Re: policy question: tag format for patch-less packages

2016-11-16 Thread Scott Kitterman
On November 16, 2016 2:33:47 PM CST, "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)" wrote: >On 11/16/2016 06:07 AM, chrysn wrote: >> Should git-dpm be used even though no patches are present? > >how do you make sure that you will never need patches? (unless this is >a >native package)

Re: policy question: tag format for patch-less packages

2016-11-16 Thread Debian/GNU
On 11/16/2016 06:07 AM, chrysn wrote: > Should git-dpm be used even though no patches are present? how do you make sure that you will never need patches? (unless this is a native package) gfmards IOhannes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

policy question: tag format for patch-less packages

2016-11-16 Thread chrysn
Hello team, I'm confused by the DPMT policy when it comes to git-dpm usage. On the one hand, git-dpm is introduced as the patch management regime. With what I understand of what git-dpm does, this means that it is not required or even useful when packages don't need patching. On the other hand,