Hello, On Fri 05 Oct 2018 at 01:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> To me "unpatched" is ambiguous: it can mean that the delta queue does > not exist, or that it exists but has not been applied. But luckily > that doesn't matter ... Ah, I was missing that this ambiguity is not a problem. >> > Maybe the answer is to provide aliases. >> > convert-from-gbp >> > convert-from-unpatched >> > ? >> >> I.e. these would both be aliases for a command called >> convert-from-unapplied? > > Right. The key points are that: > > * gbp format is the same as package-with-unapplied-delta-queue > format, modulo .gitignore (which apparently most people don't > touch). > > * If there is no delta queue then the algorithm for converting a > package-with-unapplied-delta-queue will DTRT. Okay, let's have convert-from-unpatches be an alias for convert-from-gbp. (One other option that has just occurred to me would be 'convert-from-pristine' since the upstream is pristine in the sense of being untouched by Debian.) -- Sean Whitton
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