> > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: RFC: Moving kubuntu packaging branches to pkg-kde git > Date: Tuesday 03 June 2014, 22:00:46 > From: Philip Muskovac <yo...@gmx.net> > To: pkg-kde-talk@lists.alioth.debian.org > > Hi pkg-kde team, > > as we're currently in another rather painful package merge cycle, and with kf5 > and plasma next just outside the door we've been talking about how we could > move our packaging branches over to debian git to help with the merging and > the rather large about of work duplication on both sides. > > For the large amount of SC/KF5/plasma packages we use a mostly scripted > workflow which we would like to keep using, so we came up with this git branch > layout: > > - master: has the shared packaging and targets the latest upstream (beta?) > release (which should really be everything as long as something doesn't cause > a problem for the other team) > - <series> (e.g. unstable, utopic): has any distribution specific changes that > cannot be kept in master (like specific patches, recommends/suggests changes > for archive reasons) > and is used to generate the actual archive packages for that specific series. > > While I believe that this mostly should work fine, at this point I'm not quite > sure how to manage the changelog. OdyX suggested generating it from the git > commit messages which I think would work out best, as we could then keep our > respective distribution changelogs and only share the change messages. > > A while ago I talked with maxy about commit access permissions, but for now I > don't believe this would be an issue as most kubuntu packagers already are > members of pkg-kde. > > For now, I would propose trying this shared repository idea out with the new > kf5 and later also the plasma packages as you don't have any repositories for > those yet. > > Would this be something you would consider? > It would help us a lot as this would prevent us spending weeks to merge our > packages and you would already have the changes for a new release in master > when you plan to switch to it. > > Cheers, > Philip Muškovac (yofel) > Kubuntu Developer > ----------------------------------------- >
Could we move this forward maybe? :D @Pino would be awesome to have any comments you might have against this :) Cheers Rohan Garg -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk