On Thu, 03 Nov 2011, Daniel Dehennin wrote: > First, I'm not a Debian maintainer, I mostly do some package for my > personal use, to follow SVN trunk or git HEAD of some softwares.
that is the idea behind Debian -- personal use could benefit others alike -- why not to share those packages with the rest of debian community through finalizing packaging so it is compliant with debian standards, and then seeking sponsored upload? > There are some items about which I would like to discuss, like: > - automatic handling of debia/changelog git-dch? > - multi-distributions/version packaging (and avoiding conflicts) for neurodebian we use our backport-dsc http://github.com/neurodebian/neurodebian/blob/HEAD/tools/backport-dsc NB yet to create a blog post on our set of little helpers, altogether usually we just call nd_build4all X.dsc to get it built across releases of debian and ubuntu... interested to learn more? > - management of orig.tar.gz do you mean "filtering"? git-import-orig does that if you specify 'filter' option in your debian/gbp.conf for the package > I already read some maling-list archives, mostly the "Patch mgmt > workflow proposal" plus the links givent in the thread, but the > conversations are way to high for me. thanks for the links -- I am yet to read them ;) decided to reply first ;-) -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss