Quoting Reinhard Tartler (2013-04-06 09:32:04) > Recently, Russ' blog post was echoed on http://planet.debian.org: > > http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2013-04/001.html > > In that post, he describes how to combine both the "import tarball" > and the "have upstream history" available in the upstream packaging > branch. AFAIUI, the heavy work is implemented in git-buildpackage's > --upstream-vcs-tag <tag> option. > > While that option is news to me, I wonder if maybe anyone else already > experiments with this? Does the team feel that making it mandatory for > our package would be beneficial and appropriate?
I have (way more complex) practiced that for a few years for Sugar packages. Now that it has become dead simply to do with git-buildpackage I wholeheartedly welcome mandating it - but only for those of our upstreams that themselves use git, obviously. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
