On 2014-05-21 23:26, Martin Steghöfer wrote: > I tried it once, following the instructions on > https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit, but decided against using it. > It didn't simplify my work, but instead cluttered up my repository with > the upstream source files. I don't get the point of having upstream > files in the repository, if you're not allowed to touch them directly > (only via patches).
i guess the point is, that you only need a single checkout to get everything needed to build the package. > > What would be a "more 'debian' repo"? Just using the workflow mentioned > on https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit? Or another repo host? with that i meant a repository hosted on debian infrastructure. most packaging repositories are hosted on alioth [1]. many alioth packaging teams such as pkg-multimedia (and to a lesser extent collab-maint) mandate the workflow as outlined in [2]. (collab-maint probably does not mandate that workflow, but i haven't yet seen a repository in collab-maint that does not use it; i haven't looked too deeply though). anyhow, i see that you changed the workflow :-) >> debian/control: >> - Vcs-Stanzas: >> seem to be missing (most likely because you would like to move the >> packaging to a more "debian" repo?) > I simply didn't use a repo yet, when I created the debian/control file. the files in debian/control are "alive" insofar as they should be adapted to the "current" state of affairs, rather than represent the state of affairs when they were created. >> - Description: >> all those acronyms don't mean anything to me; also "support for foo >> and bar specifics" sounds weird to me. should that read "supports >> formats foo and bar"? > This was mainly taken from upstream. Tried to improve the readability: > https://github.com/martin-steghoefer/debian-karlyriceditor/commit/bdf960a4 thanks. you might also want to make *full* sentences. rather than "Features foo. Supports bar." you should say "It features foo. karlyriceditor supports bar." > >> debian/rules: is quite nice by now :-) fgmasdr IOhannes _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers