On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:55:30PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
On Debian's Alioth infrastructure, I created a group named
linux-target.
In my opinion the packages will be a good fit here if they are related to Linux
and Block Storage
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/linux-target/
We can co-maintain it here. And I'll happily sponsor the package.
Thanks. I used to have an alioth account from the days when I helped
with the debian kernel maintanance, let's see if I can recover that.
There's no written rule for that, but yes, the packaging practice
has been to
relieve upstream of such packaging work. But many others maintain their branch
(Datera's repo, sg3-utils).
When importing, my practice is to strip of the upstream debian/ folder.
For eg,
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/linux-target/targetcli.git/tree/debian/RE...
urce
For xfsprogs we have the debian packaging in upstream and it makes
my life a lot easier. But then again if both upstream and Debian
packaging is cooperative (and both are in git!) I'm fine either way.
PS: After having written this email, I think there may not be that
much work. If
we can get 1 revision of the -fb based package imported into the Debian
packaging in Experimental, it'd be very easy to just push further incremental
uploads.
For convenience, I've cloned the Debian LIO Packaging repos at github. They
contain the entire packaging + source, in git-buildpackage workflow.
https://github.com/rickysarraf/configshell
To try out the current packages, you can just clone them, and then run??
`gbp buildpackage` for each repo. That'd give you the entire flow of the build.
Sounds great!