[pkg-otr-team] gbp vs. 1.0 source format

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Holger Levsen wrote (19 Feb 2014 18:41:19 GMT) :
> cool, so now it's just irssi-plugin-otr left. AFAIK it's debian packaging has 
> never been part of a git repo?!

No idea.

> Just one thing: I noticed there is no README.Source - but then we dont want 
> this anyway, but rather document our workflow on 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/OTR - correct?

I propose we ship a standardized README.source that points to the
place (our homepage, very likely) that documents our workflow.

>> The only problem I've spotted today with source format 1.0 + applying
>> patches directly in the packaging branch is that it makes it harder to
>> track what changes have been forwarded and/or applied upstream, and
>> which have not. To mitigate this a bit, I propose we try hard to
>> immediately forward upstream any patch we have to apply (done that
>> once today already).

> turn it into policy instead, to only include patches which have been submitted 
> upstream to some tracker or which have been merged upstream?! IOW: do not 
> include patches which have not been sent upstream.

Agreed, added to the wiki page.

Cheers,
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