How to maintain multiple branches (sid/bpo/exp etc)?

2015-11-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
hello, with the new DPMT repo layout and tools, what is the right way to maintain multiple active branches for our packages? things like: 1. unstable at v(ersion)3, bpo70 at v1 and bpo8 at v2 2. unstable at v1, experimental at v2 all of them active, so in the 2. case there should be a way to

Re: How to maintain multiple branches (sid/bpo/exp etc)?

2015-11-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 02, 2015, at 09:51 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >with the new DPMT repo layout and tools, what is the right way to >maintain multiple active branches for our packages? things like: > >1. unstable at v(ersion)3, bpo70 at v1 and bpo8 at v2 >2. unstable at v1, experimental at v2 > >all of them

Re: How to maintain multiple branches (sid/bpo/exp etc)?

2015-11-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 02, 2015, at 11:07 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >I dont think I follow your description: looking at the debian repo, stable >has 1.5.6-5 while testing and unstable has 1.5.6-7; looking at the git repo >(as of http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/python-modules/packages/python-pip.git) >all the

Re: How to maintain multiple branches (sid/bpo/exp etc)?

2015-11-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
> Raphael can probably say more about this, and advocate for DEP-14, which in > your case probably makes more sense than I have: > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep14/ > > It's probably worth some experimentation to see if DEP-14 is the right > approach for you, and how that might inform updates to

Re: How to maintain multiple branches (sid/bpo/exp etc)?

2015-11-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Nov 03, 2015, at 12:03 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >1. I have a simple package, which I keep maintaining with the usual >'master' and 'upstream' branches, but then the testing freeze will >come and I want to start uploading to experimental, at that point I >need to change the layout of the repo