Re: git 0.99.9: Subversion importer breaks RPM generation (rpmbuild bug)

Martin Langhoff [off-list ref] wrote:

On 11/1/05, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I am currently generating i386 RPMs and i386 debs myself but I
am not particularly proud of the current setup.  I do not have
an RPM based machine that I can install the result myself to
test (which is what started this thread).  Since I am not a
Debian developer (and I do not particularly wish to become one
myself), the debs I generate will not be official anyway.
Personally I'd be happier if I can just lose rpm and deb targets
from the "upstream" Makefile (git-core.spec file and debian/
subdirectory as well while we are at it), ask "packaging
maintainers" to pull from kernel.org/ tree and do RPMs and Debs
outside.

I'd say you can probably keep the current setup, and as distro
(format?) specific maintainers show up and start maintaining bits and
pieces, merge from them. git should make that easy ;-)

I'm not a DD -- but I'm on the 'NM queue' which means I'm in the
process of turning into one (delayed at the moment, but hapenning
soonish). Have a package in the archive, and a few sponsors who are
generally happy to upload my work. Would be happy to give it a go if
noone else steps up.

(Sebastian _did_ indicate interest, and fought a long, hard battle in
debian-devel about the naming of the git and cg utilities. I haven't
seen him around lately (last post:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dgit&m=3D112747921603277&w=3D2 ). May be
on holiday? CC'd)

I'm here :-)

The GNU Interactive Tools people are changing their name (to "gitfm"),
but they want a script called "git" to remind people that the name
has changed...  So I still have to rename our git to "gt" or something,
until they remove their git script.

We're going to use update-alternatives so people who dont care about
GNU Interactive Tools can call their git "git".  This is in violation
of Debian Policy, but I'm hoping my sponsor will forgive me, as it is
just a temporary violation.


I hope to get this work done sometime this week, and if I have anything
useful I'll send the patches to the list.


-- 
Sebastian Kuzminsky