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

[Andrew Pollock]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Andrew Pollock <apollock at google.com> wrote:
>
> 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

For everyone else following along at home,
https://alioth.debian.org/scm/?group_id=100988 is now pointing at the
authoritatively correct Git repository. Now onto some actual work.

> > --
> > Robert Edmonds
> > edmonds at debian.org
> >
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