Re: [Monotone-debian] Patch: do not blindly delete /var/lib/monotone on purge

[Zack Weinberg]

On 7/13/07, Ludovic Brenta <address@hidden> wrote:
> Because the directory may contain other databases.  I just lost all of
> my databases :/ luckily, monotone being distributed, I could restore
> them quickly.  Still I'll have to fetch a couple of private databases
> from backup.

Eeek!  Thanks for catching that.  I don't use the server stuff at all.

> Zack, looking at net.venge.monotone, I don't see how you create your
> packages; the latest revision of the debian/ subdirectory also
> contains source files much later than 0.35.  How do you do it?  Have
> you got a private database for the debian scripts?  I would have
> expected n.v.m to have several heads, one of which a direct descendent
> of t:monotone-0.35, with only changes to the Debian scripts.

Presently, the content of the Debian diff is not under version
control.  Not good, I know, but given that we are modifying
Makefile.in (which is in the tarball, but not in the database) I can't
think of a good way around it.  I merge all changes up to head of
n.v.m, as far as they make sense.  Starting with 0.36 (we won't have
to modify Makefile.in in 0.36) I plan to make a branch to track the
contents of the diff.  (Not just an anonymous head on n.v.m - that's
abnormal usage and would trip up everyone else.)

Since the topic has come up, I wonder if we ought to do as is
recommended in various places, and prune the debian/ directory out of
the tarball altogether, possibly even take it off n.v.m.

> I'm ready to upload with the patch below.  Any objections?  Otherwise,
> please apply it for future uploads.

Go ahead.  I'll incorporate into my local copy and forward-merge to
n.v.m later today.

zw