2009/9/8 Ryan Niebur <ryanrya...@gmail.com>: > okay, I think I understand now. how about just using "debuild" then? > why use svn-buildpackage if you don't want it to merge with upstream?
Because I'm operating out of my upstream WC. To put it another way I've already "merged with upstream," (just not the tarball) but I'm still using an SVN checkout, so (p)debuild chokes. I could export my WC and packaging, but it's an extra few steps and then I have to copy stuff back to my packaging WC to commit (which is why I like svn-buildpackage in the first place, I can just work on packaging out of a WC). The trouble is, svn-buildpackage in merge mode only allows merging with a tarball, and this is about 1% of my usage (which maybe indicates a lack of planning on my part :P). I had that set so that it didn't try to store the entire upstream stuff unnecessarily, and I can keep the packaging up to date as we work on the software itself. (To be honest, I'm still figuring out the best workflow for packaging, so maybe there's a better way that hasn't occurred to me.) Cheers, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
