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Re: [Monotone-debian] Patch: do not blindly delete /var/lib/monotone on
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Ludovic Brenta |
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Re: [Monotone-debian] Patch: do not blindly delete /var/lib/monotone on purge |
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Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:40:55 +0200 |
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Zack Weinberg writes:
>> 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.)
I agree that a different branch would be appropriate.
> 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 use monotone to keep all my Debian packages' scripts. I do not put
the upstream tarballs in Monotone, only the scripts and patches, which
I manage with quilt. See http://www.ada-france.org/article131.html
and http://www.ada-france.org/viewmtn. Maybe a good idea would be a
new branch, org.debian.monotone, containing only the debian/
subdirectory and any patches necessary?
>> 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.
Uploaded.
--
Ludovic Brenta.