On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:21:35PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > It would be best if the user would just pass an option to say `pls > pick version number' and some tool would make a reasonable stab at it.
How about a new dgit subcommand 'build-deb' which does this:
- create a new git worktree somewhere temporary
- in that worktree:
- git checkout -b dgit-build-deb
- gbp dch -S --since=dgit/dgit/foo --ignore-branch --commit
- dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b
- move .deb from temporary_worktree/.. to ..
- delete dgit-build-deb branch & temporary worktree
We would state very clearly in dgit(1) that this command is meant for
users, not package maintainers. I think the name is quite intuitive.
It makes sense to get a .deb file with a version that embeds a git
commit hash, when I ask dgit to build me a deb from my git HEAD.
Then in dgit-user(7), the SUMMARY would become
SUMMARY
(These runes will be discussed later.)
% dgit clone glibc jessie,-security
% cd glibc
% wget
'https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=28250;mbox=yes;msg=89' |
patch -p1 -u
% git commit -a -m 'Fix libc lost output bug'
% sudo apt-get build-dep glibc
% dgit build-deb
% sudo dpkg -i ../libc6_*.deb
Occasionally:
% git clean -xdf
% git reset --hard
Later:
% cd glibc
% dgit pull jessie,-security
% dgit build-deb
% sudo dpkg -i ../libc6_*.deb
While the total number of commands has not been much reduced, the
Debian-specific knowledge required to understand the commands that
remain does not go beyond what we would expect of administrators of
Debian systems. There's nothing especially off-putting.
--
Sean Whitton
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