Re: using git-dpm or plain git-buildpackage in PAPT and DPMT

2016-08-12 Thread Barry Warsaw 
On Aug 12, 2016, at 05:50 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:

>I understand this is a matter of personal taste, but I beg to differ.  I
>have been using git-buildpackage for most of my non-Python packages and,
>despite really small nits here and there, I think it is an awesome tool.

I think there are multiple ways in which git-buildpackage is used.  E.g. I use
`gbp buildpackage` even for git-dpm maintained packages, to build the source
package, etc.  (It even has a nicer `clone` command that makes it easy to
actually get tracking branches; just wish it had something like
`pull-and-update-all-branches` since it's a bit of a PITA to update the
pristine-tar branch.)

It's just the few things that git-dpm adds on top of gbp that we're discussing
getting rid of, like importing a new upstream, managing the quilt patch set,
tagging.

Cheers,
-Barry


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Re: using git-dpm or plain git-buildpackage in PAPT and DPMT

2016-08-12 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior 
On Wednesday, August 10 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote:

> I don't believe that switching from git-dpm to git-buildpackage is going
> to make things easier, it'll just be trading one set of problems for
> another.

I understand this is a matter of personal taste, but I beg to differ.  I
have been using git-buildpackage for most of my non-Python packages and,
despite really small nits here and there, I think it is an awesome tool.

git-dpm, OTOH, has several limitations (as already mentioned by others,
it's not trivial to merge changes to local patches, and it can be quite
complicated to import a new upstream version into the repository).
I have had to package some Python packages these last weeks, and every
time I had to deal with git-dpm I almost always stumbled upon some
idiosyncrasy that got in the way of my work.

Long story short: I am totally favorable to make the switch to
git-buildpackage (in fact, I recently raised this topic on IRC but the
conversation eventually died).

Cheers,

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Re: using git-dpm or plain git-buildpackage in PAPT and DPMT

2016-08-12 Thread Brian May 
Raphael Hertzog  writes:

> Anyway, +1 from me to switch to git-buildpackage and in fact among the
> python-django maintainers we are close to decide to switch back to
> git-buildpackage because it's really horrible to use when you want to
> merge across branches of different releases.

Have people here seen the following thread on debian-devel?

Subject: "[ANNOUNCE] git-series: track changes to a patch series over
time"

Might be worth looking at this thread, even if the conclusion is that
this is not a good solution (actually I don't really understand it and
haven't time to understand it).
-- 
Brian May