[Openstack-devel] Branches and tags in your upstream swift3 github repository

[FUJITA Tomonori]

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:31:37 +0800
Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:

> We are packaging Folsom Swift for Debian, and noticed that the S3 API is
> now packaged separately. So we started to work on your Debian repository.
> 
> The problem is that your github repository contains no branches, and no
> tags. So it makes it very difficult for us to work with it.
> 
> In our packaging workflow, we use Git tags for our debian/watch file,
> and for creating the orig.tar.xz. On the contrary, packaging people from
> Ubuntu use the released tar.gz.
> 
> So, it would be really nice if you could start using git tags (with
> bonus point if you use signed tags with "git tag -s", and if your pgp
> key is in any web of trust, even better if it's signed by some Debian
> Developers).

Any preference for version numbers? e.g. the major number matches with
the major number of Swift.