Hi A little background: I am working on a small distro called Mer [1] which is a community distro version of Nokia's Maemo platform for their mobile internet devices. For arm support reasons we are based over both Ubuntu and Debian using OBS; we support a variety of touch devices including N8x0, Freerunner, SmartQ5/7 and Beagleboards.
We need to package and manage a couple of hundred modified packages. I've looked at the processes that have been put up and wanted to keep the number of ancilliary applications to a minimum. Requirements: * Allow functional separation of patches to allow easier future integration * Support our role as a distro Provide packages Support maintenance releases * Support our role as an upstream (just UbuntuMID ... for now) Handle a variety of feature/fix patches Isolate code from packaging * Open to community involvement * Secure(able) process with minimal write access to master source I thought you may be interested in the process and description we're now starting to use: http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build/UsingGitorious This is totally new ground to me; I'm not a packager and although I worked around git in the early days I'm not experienced in using it in complex team situations so I would welcome comments and discussion; we're active in #mer on freenode and I'm usually in #vcs-pkg on debian-irc too. David [1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss