On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 07:19:22PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Julien Cristau writes ("Re: Status of dgit (good for NMUs and fast-forwarding
> Debian branches)"):
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:43:29 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > I should also mention a non-goal:
> > >
> > > * I have no plans to support a workflow where dgit's git tree
> > > contains different contents to the source packages.
> > >
> > To me the tree that matters is the one after debian/rules clean, not
> > dpkg-source -x. For most of the packages I touch, a lot of files get
> > removed by debian/rules clean. Does the above mean that dgit will only
> > look at the tree as extracted by dpkg-source?> Yes. The "tree of the source package" is the what you get from > dpkg-source -x. > TBPH I think it's a bug if build followed by clean doesn't restore the > package to the state you got out of dpkg-source. I don't want to > argue that as a policy change right now, but I don't have much > interest in adding code to dgit to better support the maintainers of > packages which are broken in this way. My understanding is that the current policy implies that the 'dpkg-source -x' -> './debian/rules clean' -> 'dpkg-source -b' round-trip should be idempotent for all practical purposes, just as the './debian/rules build' -> './debian/rules clean' round-trip should be. So if ./debian/rules clean does something to a checkout of your branch, then that branch seems not to be a complete representation of the source package. There are various reasons this might be the case - for instance, autogenerated autotools output that you want shipped in the source package but don't store in the repository - but these all still amount to imperfect representations of the source package, and dgit shouldn't cater to them. Either debian/rules clean should be fixed to not leave droppings, or if the output is not 'droppings', it should be part of the VCS history. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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