On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:59:59PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Big fat enormous NO! gbp is a workaround for the biggest evil in our > packaging: quilt. Watching pro-git-only talks on the Debconf, I got the > impression that if we dropped the VCS-in-VCS approach, there'd be no need > for most of that complexity.
gbp is nasty stuff, yes. Years ago I made plans to make good use of the "3.0 (custom)" source format by writing one large patch into the finished source package. It would just work with non-linear history by simply diffing the branch point and the head. What is also missing: merge friendly changelog management. > And, a flat tarball like .orig is no longer a preferred form for > modification. Do you remember the brouchacha in 2011 when Red Hat released > their kernel sources that way? It was never. A tarball is a container of files. The files inside are the perferred form of modification. Regards, Bastian -- It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable. -- Spock, "The Enterprise Incident", stardate 5027.3