git-packaging workflows

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2014-08-22 11:08:17, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Resurrecting an old thread
> 
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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 know some in the team have experimented with this new workflow.
> Could you share your experiences with it? I'm thinking that we should
> encourage this workflow a bit more: it makes collaboration with
> upstream easier (in both directions). However I'm still not too clear
> on what would it look like, so I'd like to hear from people that have
> been using it about their thoughts.
> 
> Questions of interest: are you using gbp pq? If not, how do you pick
> patches from upstream? How do you post patches back to upstream?

I'm not a great fan of the toolchain around packages in git. I like to store
packages and git and also enjoy the default git-import-orig (with pristine-tar)
layout, but that's about the only command I use from git-buildpackage besides
tagging the Debian revision and exporting the orig tarball. All the other tools
just couldn't convince me.

Most of the time I write patches directly against the upstream repository and
forward them from there. And if I take patches from the upstream repository, I
export them from there, apply them to the package and do the quilt refresh dance
if necessary.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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