Benoît Knecht wrote:
> Rogério Brito wrote:
> > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Benoît Knecht <benoit.kne...@fsfe.org> 
> > wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > But at the
> > > time, I took a shot at packaging what was then the unstable version of
> > > rtorrent, and put the result on gitorious [1,2] (in a debian/0.9.0
> > > branch for rtorrent, and a debian/0.13.0 branch for libtorrent).
> > >
> > > [1] git://gitorious.org/debian-pkg/rtorrent.git
> > > [2] git://gitorious.org/debian-pkg/libtorrent.git
> > 
> > I am looking at your packaging of rtorrent right now and it is very
> > good, with just one observation: to be more consistent with what has
> > been done and also to be more consistent with what tools like
> > git-buildpackage expect, it would be good we kept the following
> > things:
> > 
> > * the upstream source in the upstream branch (automatically done when
> > you call git-import-orig).
> > * the potential differences in a tarball taken from upstream and what
> > is generated from the upstream branch in a branch called pristine-tar
> > (automatically done when you call git-import-orig --pristine-tar).
> > * the specific debian changes in the master branch of the repository.
> > 
> > Then, debian/0.9.0-1 or someting would change from being branches to
> > being tags (automatically done when you call git-buildpackage
> > --git-pristine-tar --git-tag). Tags like upstream/0.9.0 will be
> > automatically created by the previous calls to git-import-orig.
> > 
> > Can you do those changes? If you don't, then I think that I can.
> 
> I think that's pretty much what I did, except that I used a separate
> branch instead of master; I thought it would make things easier if,
> after review, you wanted to selectively merge changes on top of master
> (I should have explained that, sorry).
> 
> But since you say the changes are okay, I've now merged debian/0.9.2
> (respectively debian/0.13.2) into master, so that the packages can be
> built without specifying --git-debian-branch. The repositories should
> now be in a state where the upstream, pristine-tar and master branches
> can simply be pulled in the alioth repository. But please let me know if
> I missed anything.

So I now have access to the repositories on alioth (thanks to Rogério),
and if no one objects, I will push the changes from gitorious to alioth
in a day or so. If you think any changes are required before I go ahead
with the merge, please let me know before then.

Cheers,

-- 
Benoît Knecht



--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Reply via email to