On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 02:11:16PM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote: [..snip..] > >- shall we standardize the "pristine-tar" branch? > > I'd say "No" here. With packaging of the MATE desktop environment I started > maintaining only the debian/ folders in the packaging Git repositories (e.g. > [1]). So, I am not shipping any upstream sources with the packaging Git at > all. I have started getting fond of this Git packaging way and I recommend > this to everyone else for various reasons (saving storage on git.debian.org > for one of them).
Having a 'pristine-tar' branch should only apply if there are any upstream sources in git. It doesn't make sense for debian/ only packaging. That said it'd be nice to know why it's more convenient to not have the upstream sources in git since I think one misses out on many of the advantages of git based packaging (like rebasing patches to new upstream versions). Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140826101458.ge1...@bogon.m.sigxcpu.org
