[Pkg-octave-devel] Moving to git-buildpackage for octave

[Sébastien Villemot]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org> writes:

> 2011/11/8 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr>:
>
>> I don't really see what is the value added in having the same DVCS
>> between upstream and Debian, since in practice the two repositories do
>> not share any history (the Debian repository only stores the upstream
>> tarballs, not the whole upstream history).
>
> That's exactly what I want to change, to share the packaging branch
> between the two repositories. That way we can regularly build packages
> straight from the Savannah branch and update the packaging branch with
> whatever changes it may need, and then the Alioth branch can just pull
> from the Savannah branch.
>
> Yes, this is ok, this is not harmful, many other projects work closely
> with upstream like this.

Do you have some examples?

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Sébastien Villemot
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