RFS: emerillon

Andreas Henriksson andreas at fatal.se
Fri Apr 9 13:17:14 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:15:41AM -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> Le vendredi 09 avril 2010 à 08:17 +0200, Andreas Henriksson a écrit :
[...]
> > I do understand that you might want to easily be able to build local
> > test versions straight from git for your testing, but these should IMHO
> > not be uploaded as official Debian packages.
> > 
> 
> I agree, any random git commit X shouldn't just be blindly uploaded as
> an official Debian package.
> 
> However, I can see a reason already to publish a git commit for
> emerillon rather than the last release (but feel free to let me know if
> you feel this is unreasonable): the last release of emerillon (0.1.1)
> was in January, and since there has been commits to git with additional
> translations. I'd very much like to be able to include those, for the
> benefit of everyone.

I think this is usually handled by cherry-picking from upstream git
repo into a packaging repositorys branch which is then exported
into debian/patches/ to avoid messing with the orig tarball....
... or similar when the packaging is not done in a git repo.

(Feel free to check out the rygel packaging for an example of
a patch branch exported to debian/patches/.)

Anyway, it's definitely common that debian/patches/ contains
patches that comes from upstream and AFAIK not common
to re-package the orig tarball and put it inside there.

[...]
> At least for me, it makes sense to use already *known to me* and
> *comfortable to me* ways of handling this, in the event that I was to
> maintain it alone (or with other people who are familiar with this
> method). It doesn't mean it's something I invented, and actually isn't
> the case anyway. It's also clear I couldn't just use a method I was not
> aware of yet, but thanks for pointing it out to me. These reasons of
> using my method is obviously no longer a valid point if maintaining
> emerillon with pkg-gnome, where yes, gnome-pkg-tools is the established
> way of fetching tarballs or building from git.

You're ofcourse welcome to handle your packages any way you wish.
I was interested if you saw any actual general advantage in your
way other then you being used to it. I guess we've confirmed not.
This wasn't clear to me in our previous ping-pong and I'm sorry
if repeating this question in new ways annoyed you.

-- 
Andreas Henriksson
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