[Pkg-protobuf-devel] Updating to protobuf 3.0, adding new project members

[Andrew Pollock]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Robert Edmonds <edmonds at debian.org> wrote:
> Andrew Pollock wrote:
>> Okay, I'm trying to avoid losing anything, so I'm using an abundance of caution.
>>
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-protobuf/protobuf.git/ is the
>> repository you created, it has a 7 week old commit in it. It has no
>> mention of 3.0.0
>
> The last upload I made to the archive was 2.6.1-1, so when I created
> /pkg-protobuf/protobuf.git/, I initialized it from the most recent
> actually uploaded git content I had on hand, and applied a few small
> changes to the Maintainer and Uploaders fields.
>
> (Though, I forgot to ack the 2.6.1-1.x NMUs.)
>
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-protobuf/pkg-protobuf.git/ is what
>> I created yesterday. It is a direct import of what's at
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/protobuf.git/ and
>> mentions 3.0.0
>
> /collab-maint/protobuf.git has some additional work-in-progress content
> that was never uploaded to the archive.  Specifically, I pulled down
> some 3.x alphas from upstream's Git repository, and imported the
> corresponding tarballs with gbp import-orig --upstream-vcs-tag.  There's
> a description of how I laid out the protobuf.git repository starting
> from 2.6.0 here:
>
>     http://blog.mycre.ws/articles/converting-to-upstream-vcs-tag/
>
> I would recommend ignoring those older alphas in
> /collab-maint/protobuf.git and use the content in
> /pkg-protobuf/protobuf.git, which is the repo I meant to use for
> packaging going forward.
>
> (I suspect the --upstream-vcs-tag workflow might not be the best
> approach going forward either, but that's a separate topic.)

Okay thanks for clarifying. I'll proceed with effectively moving
protobuf.git over the top of pkg-protobuf.git

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> Robert Edmonds
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