[pkg-fso-maint] Packaging release versions of FSO components

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Tue May 8 10:30:39 UTC 2012


On 12-05-08 at 10:49am, Simon Busch wrote:
> Hey Jonas,
> 
> > What is pull-debian-source?
> 
> It's a simple scripts from the ubuntu-dev-tools which enables you to 
> pull debian sources within ubuntu from any release (I am on ubuntu 
> here but building with a debian sid chroot environment).

Sorry, I don't use Ubuntu so cannot judge if your approach is sensible.

I dearly recommend that you use --pristine-source with the -import-orig 
command.  And that you use signed tags everywhere possible.


> > I recommend using alioth.debian.org instead.  It also supports 
> > personal repositories, if what you want is some preliminary 
> > location.
> 
> Yes, that would be the primrary target for the repositories. Currently 
> there are the repositories for the old-git-snapshot-based variant of 
> the FSO packages. If the FSO maintainers decide to switch to a 
> release-based packaged version of FSO we should rename the old 
> repositories to something like old-libfsosystem and push the new ones.

Seems to me that we are talking past each other.  I talk about using 
Alioth instead of the external (and commercial) Github.


 - Jonas

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