afflib changes

[Cristian Greco]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:02:57 +0200
Christophe Monniez <dfence.242 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Cristian Greco <cristian at regolo.cc>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > [CCing to forensics-devel for the sake of clarity]
> >
> > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:01:27 +0200
> > Christophe Monniez <dfence.242 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Cristian,
> > >
> > > I saw your answer and I'm a bit disappointed.
> > > Well, we should find a way to merge afflib-old.git and afflib.git.
> > >
> > > I'm sorry to say that you broke the advantage of using git for
> > > collaborative work by renaming the repository.
> > > We lost all the changes that were made before and there is no
> > > more a debian branch.
> > >
> > > Do you have an idea on how to resolve that ?
> > > What was the problem with the old git repos ?
> > >
> > > Anyway, thanks for your work on afflib.
> >
> > Hi Christophe,
> >
> > I moved the old repository to afflib-old after asking for consensus
> > to Michael. The repository is still available at:
> >
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=forensics/afflib-old.git
> > git://git.debian.org/forensics/afflib-old.git
> >
> > and this is the latest commit about 3.5.12-1 which never got tagged
> > nor uploaded:
> >
> >
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=forensics/afflib-old.git;a=commitdiff;h=b8ded550c2fdfda217661dbdacb3d721c12b6d08
> >
> > I moved the repository because it was in a very bad shape, with a
> > lot of unneeded garbage erroneously tracked and a lot more work to
> > be done before switching from the 3.5.10+dfsg to 3.5.12 (plain
> > dfsg-free release, thanks to cooperation of upstream author
> > applying patches and suggestions of mine). In any case, I
> > acknowledged your previous work for 3.5.12-1 (latest four commits
> > in the old repository):
> >
> >
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=forensics/afflib.git;a=commitdiff;h=3650fa9763955c8d507e30be58cb2766cf844a55
> >
> > Wrt the problem about the 'debian' branch, it is simply called
> > 'master' in the new repository (which is more reasonable,
> > especially when using git-buildpackage... the 'debian' branch is a
> > non-standard by the old maintainer which is common to most of the
> > forensics packages).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Cristian Greco
> > GPG key ID: 0xCF4D32E4
> >
> 
> Many thanks for this clear answer Cristian, the situation is now
> really clear for me.
> I apologize for the inconvenience caused by my mails.
> 
> Do you think that we should rename the 'debian' branch of all the
> packages to 'master'  ?

No, I think it's not needed, we can still live with the actual
repositories layout. I changed it for afflib while moving to the new
empty repository.

> Should we update the cheat page for git packaging handling  : "
> http://documentation.debian-projects.org/other/debian-packaging-git/" ?

It could be useful, but I personally just use a standard
git-buildpackage workflow.

Thanks,
--
Cristian Greco
GPG key ID: 0xCF4D32E4
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