Re: Using pristine-tar (was: Keeping upstream commits separate from Debian packaging commits)

2014-10-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 14, 2014, at 07:57 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: >Ah sorry, it was a message from Henrique de Moraes Holschuh. > >https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00694.html Thanks, Henrique's posting does make sense. :/ -Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.de

Re: Using pristine-tar (was: Keeping upstream commits separate from Debian packaging commits)

2014-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:40:00AM -0400, Barry Warsaw a écrit : > > I search d-d on gmane and wasn't able to find Joey's specific message about > pristine-tar bitrot. pristine-tar does have a few bugs that could be > relevant. I'm not sure where that leaves us though. Ah sorry, it was a messag

Re: Using pristine-tar (was: Keeping upstream commits separate from Debian packaging commits)

2014-10-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hi Charles, thanks for the information. On Oct 13, 2014, at 08:41 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: >in the Debian Med team, we had concrete evidence last May that the >pristine-tar data bitrots with time in the way explained by Joey on >debian-devel. > >Sorry to not have a high-quality summary to propos

Re: Using pristine-tar (was: Keeping upstream commits separate from Debian packaging commits)

2014-10-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:14:19PM -0400, Barry Warsaw a écrit : > On Oct 12, 2014, at 01:27 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: > > >That's interesting, I didn't know about that. I'm not really sure I > >understand how dgit replaces pristine-tar, unless you assume that > >every tarball you want to store

Re: Using pristine-tar (was: Keeping upstream commits separate from Debian packaging commits)

2014-10-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 12, 2014, at 01:27 PM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: >That's interesting, I didn't know about that. I'm not really sure I >understand how dgit replaces pristine-tar, unless you assume that >every tarball you want to store is in the archive. (Perhaps that's a >reasonable assumption?) And since we

Re: Using pristine-tar (was: Keeping upstream commits separate from Debian packaging commits)

2014-10-12 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On 12 October 2014 12:36, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Isn't pristine-tar deprecated by its author? I read > https://bugs.debian.org/737871 and That's interesting, I didn't know about that. I'm not really sure I understand how dgit replaces pristine-tar, unless you assume that every tarball you wan

Using pristine-tar (was: Keeping upstream commits separate from Debian packaging commits)

2014-10-12 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2014-10-12 14:49, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Let's say there's a few more other people which > were not accounted for and that were not at Debconf, those who prefers > having upstream source code in the VCS are still the majority. And some weren't at Debconf and prefer to work with upstream source