Re: patches-applied historical imports (usd import)

2017-01-09 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 09.01.2017 [13:40:16 +], Ian Jackson wrote: > Nish Aravamudan writes ("patches-applied historical imports (usd import)"): > > 1) Some source packages (bouncycastle, php7.0 are the ones I can think > > of off the top of my head) upstream tarballs contain .gitattributes > > files, which will

Re: patches-applied historical imports (usd import)

2017-01-09 Thread Nish Aravamudan
Hi Sean, On 08.01.2017 [21:34:50 -0700], Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Nish, > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 02:26:29PM -0800, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > > 2) How do we determine if a source package is 1.0 vs. 3.0? I am > > currently using `dpkg-source --print-format`, but have found one source > >

Re: patches-applied historical imports (usd import)

2017-01-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Nish Aravamudan writes ("patches-applied historical imports (usd import)"): > [stuff] It occurs to me that it would be a good idea for you to check that your importer produces identical answers to dgit. If nothing else, from your point of view dgit can help you test that your importer DTRT. At

Re: patches-applied historical imports (usd import)

2017-01-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Nish Aravamudan writes ("patches-applied historical imports (usd import)"): > 1) Some source packages (bouncycastle, php7.0 are the ones I can think > of off the top of my head) upstream tarballs contain .gitattributes > files, which will change the behavior of git itself when checking out a >

Re: patches-applied historical imports (usd import)

2017-01-09 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 05:17:08PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Robie Basak writes ("Re: patches-applied historical imports (usd import)"): > > Right now, we're accepting rich history only for Ubuntu-specific > > commits. I don't think we have really considered yet what would be best > > for

Re: patches-applied historical imports (usd import)

2017-01-09 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 02:02:34PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Robie Basak writes ("Re: patches-applied historical imports (usd import)"): > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:45:52PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Ideally you and I could agree on a commit structure for the imported > > > packages, and