Re: workflow with Debian patches and Git repositories

2016-10-17 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
"Brent W. Baccala" writes: > You tack a .git directory onto the unpacked Debian source package? Sure. Maybe I could just check out a work tree and build packages from that but I seem to recall that I had some difficulty with .pc/ that way. > It looks to me like that Debian git tree contains an

Re: workflow with Debian patches and Git repositories (was: libpager multi-client support)

2016-10-16 Thread Brent W. Baccala
On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > > I also have a "hurd-debian" working tree. I extracted that from > the Debian source package, so that I got a .pc directory with the > correct state information. I then added a .git directory cloned > from "git://anonscm.debian.o

workflow with Debian patches and Git repositories (was: libpager multi-client support)

2016-10-16 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
"Brent W. Baccala" writes: > My first question is for advice on managing my workflow. I'm using the > Debian hurd package, which adds patches on top of a snapshot taken from > savannah's git tree. I think I want to work on the Debian-ized code, since > that's what's installed on my system, but