Re: Introductory mail

2008-10-01 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:27:13PM +0200, Martin Bähr wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:27:34PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Not really. I prefer to have the source packages be unpackged even on a machine which does not run Debian, using just plain old tar and patch. Thus I tend

patch series does not make VCS obsolete (was: Introductory mail)

2008-10-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.10.01.0302 +0200]: Only if you like working with patch series, and prefer to lose all the information that the original VCS contained. I prefer to see the whole history, not just a snapshot, when I am joining a development effort.

v3 Debian source package formats (was: Introductory mail)

2008-10-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.10.01.0302 +0200]: This is a strawman, really. The options are not the giant big diff vs quilt (equally horrible, IMHO). The options are 3.0 (quilt) vs 3.0 (git). I would have gone for the 3.0 (git) format myself, except that it

Re: extracting patches from the ancestry graph

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 01 2008, martin f krafft wrote: Assuming we have a number of feature branches, we may well have to resolve conflicts among them, so an integration branch seems like the right way forward. So unless we just build the package from the integration branch to produce a monolithic

Re: extracting patches from the ancestry graph

2008-10-01 Thread George Danchev
Quoting Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Oct 01 2008, martin f krafft wrote: Assuming we have a number of feature branches, we may well have to resolve conflicts among them, so an integration branch seems like the right way forward. So unless we just build the package from the

Re: extracting patches from the ancestry graph

2008-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 01 2008, George Danchev wrote: Quoting Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Oct 01 2008, martin f krafft wrote: Assuming we have a number of feature branches, we may well have to resolve conflicts among them, so an integration branch seems like the right way forward. So

Re: v3 Debian source package formats

2008-10-01 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
* Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081001 20:46]: This might be you, but not the rest of the world. Also, people are hardly trying to develop large and nifty features in their debian/patches/ seriously. These are for tracking divergencies, not accepted upstream X.Y for any reason.