[Forensics-devel] Beginning to work...

[Christophe Monniez]

On Feb 9, 2008 4:46 PM, Daniel Baumann <daniel at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi all :)
>
> I've documented some parts of the proposed workflow with git and
> pristine-tar, draft is located here:
>
> http://daniel.debian.net/documents/cheatpages/maintainer.html
>
> but...
>
> When it comes to the point where a DD is uploading a package to the
> archive, he needs to check, amongst others, upstream source integrity.
> For me, it is the easiest to do when uploading the .git repository to
> alioth. Especially because this is also ensuring that we don't 'waste'
> manpower with useless (e.g. md5deep, see #438753) or even
> undistributable packages.
>
> Therefore, I propose that I do the initial checkins for the first couple
> of packages.
>
> Just now, there are the following packages available as git repositories:
>
> myrescue  pgpcrack  pipebench  pipemeter  recoverdm  sgzip
>
> whereas myrescue is ready to be uploaded, and the other ones needs
> corrected debian/*. This is where you come in.. please have a look at
> myrescue and adapt the others to the same 'style'. Please have also have
> a look at the log of myrescue (cd myrescue && git log), and also do
> small commits if possible. Remeber to *NOT* list your changes in
> debian/changelog; this file will be automatically generated from git log
> when the package gets uploaded.
>
> For a general overview about best-practis on commiting, see here:
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;hb=HEAD
>
> In the meanwhile, I upload further upstream sources I've got from
> Christophe..
>
> Happy hacking and sorry for all previous delays,
> Daniel
>

Thanks for the good work Daniel.
Now I have work to do and things to learn.

--
Christophe