Hello Ian,
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 08:18:16PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#817951: Simple helpers for handling orig tarballs
> for packages where upstream's git is the canonical source"):
> > Could you give me some indication of what these other utilities will do?
>
> Something to turn a branch which is a mixture of pseudomerges,
> upstream or mixed linear commits, and Debian linear commits, into
> something you could sensibly do `git rebase' on. That would be part
> of a rebasey dgit workflow, but might be useful for other purposes.
> (#720177; doesn't need to be a dgit verb and maybe shouldn't be.)Something like this should probably not be in devscripts, so I now understand why you want to namespace. > Something to conveniently import a tarball as a git commit (or > optionally, just a tree). gbp-import-orig does a pretty good job of this. Maybe you just add a wrapper, passing some sensible flags, so that it can be used without d/gbp.conf, and without any ~/gbp.conf interfering? > Utility to help do repeated merge for a downstream distro using > --quilt=smash. Similarly, not suitable for devscripts. > > Depending on how dgit-specific they are, we could try to get some of > > these into devscripts. > > Perhaps, yes. Maybe your proposed script wants to be in devscripts. > devscripts is already rather namespace-abusive, so maybe if it's there > we don't care much... One thing that some scripts in devscripts do is prefix 'deb'. You could use debgit- as a prefix for these dgit scripts? -- Sean Whitton
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