On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:33:25 +0200, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > On Friday 27 March 2009, David Paleino wrote: > > F/up set, please respect it > > (I forgot setting it in my first mail, sorry.) > > Being a user of kmail I don't really know if it is possible to easily handle > it. Also, I'm not suer I completely understand what you mean. You want to > only send replies to the debian-devel list? (If yes, excuse this reply :-)
Yes, that was the intention :) Ok, stripping unwanted CCs now. > > > I see that you use git. Is it madantory to use git? (I'm not familiar > > > with it). > > > > No. You (or whoever is going to maintain it) may use whichever $VCS you > > want. There's some old-ish SVN repository for libnet (I migrated it to git > > recently, so the history there is not that old -- if you meant to use SVN, > > that is) > > > > http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/collab-maint/deb-maint/libnet > > > > But please note that the SVN repo is quite "broken" [0] -- you may want to > > remove it and start it all over again (maybe re-importing it from git?) > > I have to have this stored in an VCS? For some other packages i packaged > (only 1 in debian), i used a local copy (at least to begin with). Not really, it's just "best practice" -- in case of an harddisk failure you'll still have all your work in a VCS. But you can always only have local copies (I started using VCS's soon after starting packaging, I believe I had only a few only locally) > If yes: Do I have to have the whole package in the VCS or just the debian/ > directory? From what I've read I assumed that I only need to have local > copies (or a versioning system) of debian/. That depends on the chosen VCS / workflow. In case of SVN, seems like being best practice to only store debian/ (and you'll see that libnet's repo doesn't respect this -- and I can't recall why). In case of Git, many developers use a three-branch-layout ("upstream", containing the unpacked sources, "pristine-tar" containing a compressed version of the sources, and "master", containing debian/ merged with the "upstream" branch -- you usually work only on "master", and branch from there, i.e. upstream and pristine-tar are usually handled by automagical tools). Other developers use a debian/ only (i.e. "master" only) layout, which I'm personally not comfortable with. After all, it's your choice, you should have fun working with VCS's (that's why I switched from SVN to Git most of my packages, *grin*) Ciao, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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