On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 05:19:26PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 04:01:18PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > Personally, in this case I would say you need to change two things: > > > 1) edit the remote repository configuration so HEAD points to the debian > > > branch
done this now.
> > > 2) change Vcs-Git of the version in experimental by adding '-b
> > > debian-experimental'
done this in git now, not yet uploaded…
> > hm. how "personally" is that? will my simple suggestion also by
> > sufficient? why do you suggest what you suggest?
> Your suggestion is definitly enough for all automated tools (and for
> users using debcheckout).
Thanks for confirming.
> > > (but it should be pointing to 'debian', really).
> > why oh why?
>
> Because that way people running
> git clone alioth:/git/collab-maint/munin.git
> like me (I'm even more evil, I'd do `git clone cm:munin`) will then get
> the packaging branch without further specifying flags for branches and
> stuff.
ah! & thanks, this made me point HEAD to debian! :)
> Quoting from the Policy about Vcs-*:
> | The field’s value uses the version control system’s conventional
> | syntax for describing repository locations and should be sufficient to
> | locate the repository used for packaging. Ideally, it also locates
> | the branch used for development of new versions of the Debian package.
> That means that the Vcs-* fields should ideally point to the packaging
> branch.
also thanks for pointing this out.
> I like to take this one step further, as really what's in
> alioth is all about debian packaging, the default branches IMHO should
> be a packaging branch.
agreed.
> > to me its very simple: if there is a debian branch, this is the branch
> > for debian packaging. if there isnt, the debian stuff is probably in the
> > master branch…
>
> Right, probably everybody if what they look for is not in the default
> branch, they have a look around at the available branches and can
> easily figure it out. But really there ought to be no guesswork
> involved at all...
I like automated guesswork… not human guesswork.
> But yes, specifying -b in Vcs-Git is really all that's expected (and it
> will definitly make vcswatch happied :))
hm, so I will do this now in addition to having made HEAD point to
debian.
And then I'll wait two more days til 2.0.34-2 is in Buster and then
upload -3 to see if everything is working as it shall :)
--
cheers,
Holger
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