[Pkg-opennebula-devel] GBP settings - Was: Re: opennebula-4.12.3

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org> writes:

> On Wednesday 05 August 2015 14:24:23 Olivier Berger wrote:
>> In any case, we should make sure the proper GBP configuration is
>> documented [1], and reasonably usable by multiple people.
>
> I'm beginning to think that I may need to push upstrem tarball to "upstream" 
> branch after all because it will fix all the problems with building with GBP
> even though it might slightly complicate packaging of new upstream releases. 
>

I share some of the concerns about not using a fixed .orig tarball, and
instead, using the HEAD of a branch called upstream (or a tag).

However, it is really helpful to be able to git diff with upstream
sources,check contents of upstream files at various stages, directly
from withing the same working dir, to be able to create Debian patches,
for instance (backporting, etc.).

So having upstream sources somewhere in the same repo helps sometimes.

>> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/pkg-opennebula/GitWorkflow
>
> I haven't seen that one, thanks. You are right, instructions should be in 
> line with reality and it would be nice to update that page...
>

One more thing on the TODO ;-)

Best regards,
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Olivier BERGER 
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