[Pkg-scicomp-devel] upstream source in svn

[Steffen Moeller]

Hello Ondrej,

On Tuesday 04 September 2007 07:45:16 Ondrej Certik wrote:
> > I commonly check out the full repositories from alioth svns, both for
> > commodity and curiosity. However, with SciComp I filled my local disk's
> > partition since all upstream source apparently comes with it. This was a
> > bit to my (and my disk's) surprise.
> >
> > Are you aware of the "merge" flag for svn-buildpackage? This way only the
> > Debian directory would be saved to the disk. The upstream bits would come
> > from the orig.tar.gz. Changes to upstream would have to be prepared via a
> > patch file. I find this to be very beneficial, particulary for frequently
> > updated upstream packages.
>
> we use it for some of the packages, for example libmesh, abinit,
> openmx etc. Actually, you don't even have to prepare everything as
> patches (although it is definitely cleaner), you can just put any
> files in the svn and svn-buildpackage will automatically create the
> diff.

Er, right. The debian.diff.gz, not the patch underneath debian/patches, sadly.

> > I apologize should this have been discussed before, not unlikely,
> > admittedly. In that case I volunteer for a note on the project's home
> > page on the svn policies. Should this be some new thought for this
> > project, then I would be happy to give an example.
>
> But I agree it should be used for all of the packages.

I prepared this cute little Wiki page http://wiki.debian.org/pkg-scicomp that 
now mentions the merge functionality. You longer lasting pkg-scicomp members 
should decide for what is right. I personally feel that the merged mode saves 
an incredible amount of time and people will appreciate to be directed over 
their initial lerning curve by some unspoken policy combined with volunteer 
technical aid where required.

Many greetings

Steffen




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