Romain Lenglet wrote:
> > This looks like separated issues: fixes of the debian
> > directory may go in the Xenomai svn repository, and cause a
> > debian package update without a new upstream release. But
> > there are maybe other issues ?
>
> Alright, but we should be able to make changes in both the
> Xenomai code and the Debian files, independently.
> If a package has been released, then if we want to release a new
> revision of the package that corrects Debian-only issues, then
> we must be able to ignore any modification in the repository
> that do not concern the Debian files, to create the new package.
>
> We can do that with either separate repositories, or branches in
> svn.
Handling a separate branch mean seems a lot of maintenance, whereas
updates of the debian packaging system would go in the debian directory
(I mean, except manapges ;-), and work on the trunk would never change
the debian directory.
Maybe a lighter solution would be to maintain the debian directory at
another place in the repository, for example in packages/debian, and to
make it appear in trunk using the subversion svn:external attribute.
This way the debian directory would appear in all the releases of
xenomai.
--
Gilles Chanteperdrix.
