handling of changelog for qubes-whonix package

phabricator-migrator · February 19, 2024, 5:51pm

Information

ID: 193
PHID: PHID-TASK-jhbp3kvupb5b3xx4n6ja
Author: Patrick
Status at Migration Time: resolved
Priority at Migration Time: Low

Description

debian/changelog is supposed to be only used by the Debian packager.

changelog.upstream (or an alternative file) is supposed to be used by upstream.

Added this here:
GitHub - adrelanos/qubes-whonix: Configures Whonix to run as a ProxyVM / AppVM on Qubes OS or here GitHub - Whonix/qubes-whonix

Please merge. Unless you disagree.

Comments

Patrick

2015-02-22 23:33:19 UTC

Talked with @nrgaway about this on IRC. Summary:

@nrgaway will be upstream* with GitHub - nrgaway/qubes-whonix: Configures Whonix to run as a ProxyVM / AppVM on Qubes OS.
** *upstream as per definition of Debian packaging.
** It will be a little bit strange, because @nrgaway will also be the one maintaining the debian maintainer scripts, i.e. postinst etc.

In future,
** with my qubes-whonix contributor hat, I will git push to GitHub - adrelanos/qubes-whonix: Configures Whonix to run as a ProxyVM / AppVM on Qubes OS. Any even remotely risky changes I will propose and push to GitHub - adrelanos/qubes-whonix: Configures Whonix to run as a ProxyVM / AppVM on Qubes OS for @nrgaway to review and merge.
** with my Whonix Debian packager maintainer hat, I will fetch from GitHub - nrgaway/qubes-whonix: Configures Whonix to run as a ProxyVM / AppVM on Qubes OS and merge into GitHub - Whonix/qubes-whonix.
** GitHub - Whonix/qubes-whonix might be ahead a very few commits, but only with almost 100% risk free changes, i.e. bumping version numbers and signing git tags. No functional changes. debian/changelog will only say “bumped debian/changelog”.

@nrgaway will maintain upstream.changelog.
** Feel free to totally wipe and rewrite upstream.changelog. No need to use the cheap autogenerated changelog.upstream which is just a “git log”. You could use the same style as currently in debian/changelog. Whatever you prefer.

Please feel free to correct my summary.

Patrick

2015-05-13 11:20:12 UTC

Patrick

2015-05-23 16:45:07 UTC