Re: Introductory mail

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Sep 29 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:44:57PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Arguably, we should all use debhelper and use quilt+subversion, >> to make it easier for more people to follow the package. And, really, >> we should all be using rpm or

Re: Introductory mail

2008-09-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:44:57PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Arguably, we should all use debhelper and use quilt+subversion, > to make it easier for more people to follow the package. And, really, > we should all be using rpm or tar.gz. (More people use subversion than > do unders

Re: Introductory mail

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Sep 29 2008, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.09.29.1908 +0200]: >> My goal is not to have a patch series in a Debian package. My goal >> is to be able to develop software that is packaged for Debian -- > > This argument has been taken ad infi

Re: Introductory mail

2008-09-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.09.29.1908 +0200]: > My goal is not to have a patch series in a Debian package. My goal > is to be able to develop software that is packaged for Debian -- This argument has been taken ad infinitum on debian-devel. The idea of a patch series in

Re: Introductory mail

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Sep 29 2008, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.09.29.1745 +0200]: >> I don't really want to add ./debian/patches directory to keep >> track of previous patch series; > > Well, it is the only truly-accepted, VCS-agnostic way to have > a

Re: Introductory mail

2008-09-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.09.29.1745 +0200]: > I don't really want to add ./debian/patches directory to keep > track of previous patch series; Well, it is the only truly-accepted, VCS-agnostic way to have a patch series in a Debian package, so why not? > and

Re: Introductory mail

2008-09-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Sep 28 2008, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Stéphane Glondu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.09.28.1158 +0200]: >> I've read topgit's README.source. I am currently experimenting with it. >> Is there any other source package using topgit? > > None that I know of. It'll be hard to come up wit

Re: git-buildpackage and topgit (was: Introductory mail)

2008-09-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:01:25PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Can git-buildpackage use information stored in the repository, such > as which branch to build from? It would be handy to be able to tell > people just to use git-buildpackage without expecting them to pass > the right branch name.

git-buildpackage and topgit (was: Introductory mail)

2008-09-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Guido Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.09.29.1053 +0200]: > > If git-buildpackage expects master, then it is inflexible; you > > should be able to tell it to build from build. > git-buildpackage builds from any branch you tell it to. I will have to look at git-buildpackage one of thes

Re: Introductory mail

2008-09-29 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 08:43:18AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: [..snip..] > If git-buildpackage expects master, then it is inflexible; you > should be able to tell it to build from build. git-buildpackage builds from any branch you tell it to. -- Guido _

Re: Introductory mail

2008-09-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 07:50:17AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > In a way that we could run this over the entire archive to produce > statistics? Well, all Vcs-Git packages anyway...? Yes. > > It would be better to avoid adding that behavior to "debcheckout -p" > > though, as currently that fla