[Debian-olpc-devel] List of tasks to be done (was: Re: maintaining squeak and friends)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:52:03AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>Above mentioned branch, git+tarball+quilt+misc, matches how you have 
>currently packaged.  It is not how it seems to me that it would be 
>ideally packaged - and since switching cdbs-skel branches is so clumsy, 
>you might as well adjust before applying cdbs-skel initially - if you 
>agree with the changes, off course:
>
> * Drop including unused patchsys-quilt snippet
> * Add branches to track upstream Git source (or ask me to do it)
> * switch to or init cdbs-skel branch git+git+tarball+misc
>
>
>Please do ask if any of it doesn't make sense.  Or tell me if you'd 
>rather not understand the details but just leave it to me to tighten 
>up.  I wouldn't want to loose your interest in this due to one-time 
>complexities caused partly by my hacks of using semi-local cdbs 
>snippets. :-)


Oh, I forgot earlier: You might wonder if it isn't smarter to leave in 
that patchsys-quilt snippet when it is clumsy to change later on.  The 
newer packaging trend is to abandon explicit quilt routines and instead 
switch to a newer packaging source format called "3.0 quilt" which 
handles that internally.

New format is a bit rough to use still (not fully supported by 
git-buildpackage as example) so I suggest not using it yet if not 
necessary, but it is better than patchsys-quilt when patching does 
become necessary.


  - Jonas

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