[pkg-boost-devel] coping with patches

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:53:51PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:

> Wrt this you could be interested in "3.2 On-Build-Time merging" [0]
> in the svn-buildpackage HOWTO.

Yes, indeed!  I use that with my other subversion packages.  My plan
was (1) tease out all the diffs into debian/patches, then (2) propose
to move to build-time merging.

> I never tried this transformation of the repository, I think would be
> easier (and safer) to put current tree aside and start with a fresh
> one with mergeWithUpstream enabled from the start.

I normally do it from the start, too.  But I think I have successfully
transformed an existing repository.  We can revisit this once we've
got the diff cleaned up.

 
> <git propaganda>
>   In theory a VCS should help to keep things under control, but
>   subversion is not a real VCS. Until one swhitches to git can not
>   understand (I was an addicted user of CVS/subversion).
> </git propaganda>
> 
> I would also give a glance to git-buildpackage, it could be another
> good alternative and would not exclude quilt anyway.

I don't know anything about git.  Can you suggest a gentle introduction?
Is there a git server suitable for Debian somewhere?


> My mood is not good enough to work on Boost Debian packages now,
> unfortunately this is happening more and more frequently.

No problem.  The beauty of team maintainership is that one can take a
sabattical.  I, myself took a multi-year holiday from boost during
which time it was maintained exceedingly well.  ;-)

Cheers,
-Steve
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