Re: git based autoforwardporter.

2017-01-21 Thread peter green
On 19/01/17 19:36, Ian Jackson wrote: I think such a tool would be very useful in general, if it could be used for individual users. I see no reason why it couldn't be used by an individual user. I have posted the current code at . https://github.com/plugwash/dscdirtogit (import tool)

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

PSA: github file size limit means that some debian package imports can't be pushed to github.

2017-03-09 Thread peter green
I have recently started pushing source for packages where we carry modifications for in raspbian to github. The packages are imported into git using dgit. However I have discovered that this is not possible for all packages. In particular github rejects files over 100 megabytes and the

on quilt, dpkg, dgit and symlinks.

2017-03-09 Thread peter green
I recently discovered some unusual behaviour in a source package I was working on. I was using some scripts I put together myself to generate patch series for a debian package. dgit claimed I was creating a new symlink and that creation of a new symlink could not be represented by 3.0

Re: PSA: github file size limit means that some debian package imports can't be pushed to github.

2017-03-09 Thread peter green
. Secondly AIUI git-lfs stores every version of the file seperately. If so then one would very quickly blow through the default storage and bandwidth limitations for githubs lfs offering. On March 9, 2017 7:42:20 AM PST, peter green <plugw...@p10link.net> wrote: I have recently started p

extracting upstream source.

2017-07-25 Thread Peter Green
As part of my dgit based autoforwardporter I want to add a script that will de-fuzz patches with fuzz and remove patches that cannot be applied. To do this I need the "upstream" source tree. However the process of extracting the upstream source is quite fiddly, there may be multiple tarballs

Re: Securely retrieving dscs from snapshot.debian.org

2017-12-30 Thread peter green
On 27/12/17 23:42, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 5:41 AM, peter green wrote: Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a good way to securely retrive a dsc from snapshot.debian.org given a package name and version number. At this time there isn't any good way to do that securely