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Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Bug#903392: want support for packaging-only
maintainer views"):
> On Thu 27 Jun 2019 at 05:23pm +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Secondly:
> >
> > If the user says "use upstream from git" but there is no git, the user
> > gets an error message mentioning git tags and that can also say
> > something about the other quilt mode.
> >
> > If the user says "use upstream tarball" but they had git available,
> > the result is to silently ignore the upstream history and use a
> > tarball import instead.
> >
> > In keeping with the philosophy of making doing the right thing
> > convenient, suboptimals things possible, and requiring mistakes to be
> > explicit, ISTM that the tarball variant should mention that.
>
> "mention that"? Sorry, I'm not sure about how what you say here is a
> response to what I wrote.
I mean, the name for the tarball variant should mention tarball.
> >> An alternative to 'packaging' would be 'debiandir'.
> >
> > In my new taxonomy, I call this "bare debian" so baredebian would be a
> > possibility.
> >
> > I think quilt modes could contain + signs so perhaps
> > baredebian+git
> > baredebian+tarball
>
> This, or debiandir+git and debiandir+tarball, LGTM.
So far I have implemented `baredebian' to mean the with-upstream-git
variant.
I could make baredebian+git an alias for it. Or, rename it. It's not
released yet...
Ian.
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