On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <k...@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> I also have a "hurd-debian" working tree. I extracted that from
> the Debian source package, so that I got a .pc directory with the
> correct state information. I then added a .git directory cloned
> from "git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-hurd/hurd.git", so that I can
> view the history and make local commits.
>
>
This is the step that most raises my hackles. You tack a .git directory
onto the unpacked Debian source package?
It looks to me like that Debian git tree contains an unpacked snapshot of
the savannah git tree. Various commits there are labeled "new upstream
snapshot"; I suppose that's how changes to savannah get imported? And
those other .tar.gz files that make up the Debian source package are
unpacked into it as well? Are they snapshots taken from the incubator git
tree?
Is the Debian git tree composed exclusively of pieces pulled from various
git trees on savannah?
How does the Debian source package actually get built? Is there a script?
Could we reorganize the Debian git tree to import the savannah git trees as
submodules? Or has this approach been deliberately rejected?
And then, of course, the Debian patches are checked into git as files, not
(git) patches. I was just reading about "git-buildpackage", which manages
Debian patches by converting them back and forth to git patches on a
dedicated branch. You keep this branch local and rebase it to apply the
patches to a new location. Sounds a little crazy, but interesting.
Just trying to get my mind around all this.
agape
brent
