git based autoforwardporter.

2017-01-18 Thread peter green
First let me introduce myself, I am Peter Michael Green, cofounder of the Raspbian project. I have quite a bit of experiance with Debian Some time ago I put together what I call the "autoforwardporter". The aim of this is to take downstream changes and apply them on top of new debian uploads.

re: patches-applied historical imports (usd import)

2017-01-18 Thread peter green
I haven't run dgit's dsc importer on a whole historical archive but Peter Green of Raspian has been running it and filing bugs. I haven't seen such a bug recently so I hope it has been working for all the packages he's seen. I haven't really been doing large scale importing, I have just imported

Re: git based autoforwardporter.

2017-01-18 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Peter, On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 02:16:27AM +, peter green wrote: > Some time ago I put together what I call the "autoforwardporter". The > aim of this is to take downstream changes and apply them on top of new > debian uploads. Can you expand on this? We do exactly this in Ubuntu as another