Re: Representing Debian Metadata in Git

Hello,

I think that more than you realise of this already exists :)

On Tue 20 Aug 2024 at 04:10pm +09, Simon Richter wrote:

From a requirements perspective, I'd like to be able to

 - express patches as commits:
   - allow cherry-picking upstream commits as Debian patches
   - allow cherry-picking Debian patches for upstream submission

git-debrebase and git-dpm already achieve this.

 - express filter steps for generating the upstream archive(s) from a tree‑ish
  and some metadata

Excluded-Files in d/copyright is for this.
I guess that you disprefer that because it's part of the tree, though.

 - store upstream signatures inside Git

Well, there's signatures on their tags.

 - keep a history of patches, including patches applied to previously released
  packages

This is already there with git-debrebase and git-dpm, though it is a bit
fiddly to dig it out.

-- 
Sean Whitton