On 24/10/13 at 15:18 +0200, Gabriel de Perthuis wrote: > Hello, > I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: > > git clone deb::mypackage > > It does a faithful import of the package history from > snapshot.debian.org. There is some agressive caching built-in, and a > bit of logic to rebuild the history graph from changelogs. It is also > able to deal with most quirks in the upload history, like missing source > packages, missing .dsc files, and obsolete keys. > > On the git side, the --depth option is supported. Incremental imports > (both new releases and deepening the history) aren't yet, but the shared > cache helps rebuild branches faster. > > It's available here https://github.com/g2p/git-deb and on PyPI.
That's really cool, and actually something I had on my TODO list (in the "Cool hacks I'll do when I have time" section). Do you think that it would be possible to turn it into a script part of devscripts? Some things I noticed: 1) $HOME/.cache/debsnap/ needs to be manually created 2) Trying to import simgrid, I don't know how to import all versions. It seems that: git clone 'deb::simgrid?trust=DA196237023B3F4F' simgrid fails with: NameError: global name 'skip' is not defined and if I do: git clone 'deb::simgrid?skip=0;trust=DA196237023B3F4F' simgrid it fails with ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list why does 'trust' imply skipping at least one version? May I suggest that snapshot2deb would be a better, less generic name? Thanks a lot, Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131024162450.ga20...@xanadu.blop.info
