Re: [Monotone-debian] Uploading 0.42 for squeeze, and structure of the debian branch

[Ludovic Brenta]

Zack Weinberg <address@hidden> writes:
> Since Debian is finally about to release, I thought I'd dust off the
> packaging logic for a new upstream version.  I pushed a bunch of small
> fixes to nvm.debian-diff (mostly stuff Lintian objected to) and I
> would be happy to call that 0.42-2 and upload it officially on, say,
> Monday, assuming the distro release doesn't slip (hence the post-dated
> timestamp in the changelog).  I haven't tagged anything yet, though.
>
> However, going forward I notice that it is actually quite inconvenient
> to use nvm.debian-diff together with release tarballs.  I'd like to
> propose that we create a brand new branch (maybe call it
> nvm.debian-dir) which would contain *just* the contents of the debian
> directory, at its top level, as new files.  With post-0.42 tarballs
> that don't contain a debian directory themselves, this would let us
> work much more simply:
>
> $ tar zxf monotone_0.43.tar.gz
> $ cd monotone_0.43
> $ mtn clone -b net.venge.monotone.debian-dir monotone.ca debian
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -i
>
> What do you say?

That was my initial proposal and that's how I've been using monotone
for Debian packaging for years :)

I'd suggest org.debian.monotone as the branch name, for consistency
with all other packages I maintain with monotone.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.