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

[Thomas Weber]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 05:26:38PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 8 November 2011 17:17, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 05:45:00PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> >> On 7 November 2011 17:31, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > does anyone still have patches that are not yet pushed into the octave
> >> > git repository? I would like to change it to git-buildpackage layout,
> >> > with just the 3.2.4 sources (which suits fine, as stable has 3.2.4 as
> >> > well).
> >> >
> >> > Oh, and if you are against that change, please say so as well.
> >>
> >> I think we should use hg since Octave itself uses hg.
> >
> > No, and that's final.
> 
> I guess it's only final until I get around to doing my own packaging
> in hg. Meritocracy. git is a piece of shit, and the sooner we stop
> using it, the better. I'm not sure git-buildpackage is all that great,
> since we can't seem to get it working either.

The few times I've used git-buildpackage, it worked as expected. 

> I seem to have free time again, so I'll work on my version of the hg
> packaging. 

I suggest you start with 3.4.2 and then upgrade to 3.4.3, at which point
you will see changes in the symbols file. The question now is: are these
changes an ABI change?

I don't quite see how using Mercurial would be any better at answering
this question than git.

	Thomas