On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:05:32AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:16:13 -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I've been working on making dpkg-source support a new source package > > format based upon git. The idea is that a source package has only a > > .dsc and a .git.tar.gz, which is just a git repo. > > > My implementation adds a new 3.0 version source format. A 3.0 format > > debian source package can consist of any files allowed by formats 1 > > and 2, but may also contain .$VCS.tar.gz files. To build a version 3 > > source package, a new field is needed in debian/control: > > I do not yet grok git, so could someoe tell me what this means > in terms of, say, CVS or arch? What is a $CVS.tar.gz file contain when > the we are using CVS?
I think this only really makes sense for distributed revision control systems. For arch, the .arch.tar.gz would contain the {arch} directory, perhaps with a few adjustments similar to those being made in the git and bzr modules. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]