Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#903392: Bug#931253: Bug#903392: want support for
packaging-only maintainer views"):
> While writing the e-mail I sent a few minutes ago, I lost track of the
> actual concrete suggestion, which was calling baredebian+git just
> baredebian. Sorry about that.
Heh.
> I no longer think that renaming is needed. I'd like to suggest adding
> baredebian+git as an alias for baredebian, and writing it immediately
> after in the docs, i.e.
>
> --quilt=baredebian (or its alias --quilt=baredebian+git) specifies
> that ...
>
> I think that this makes it easier to understand the difference between
> the two options, but also it enhances the strength of the encouragement
> to use baredebian+git over baredebian+tarball.
I can do that. One of the two values must be primary in that it will
be the value of $quilt_mode and appear in messages. So if you say
--baredebian+git
you will get messages which say you specified "-quilt=baredebian".
I hope that will be OK.
Ian.
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