[Pacemaker] [Linux-ha-dev] Debian packaging input welcome: repositories set up at hg.linbit.com

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 04:54:13PM +0200, Florian Haas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> as you know, Martin Loschwitz (madkiss) has picked up the torch for
> building and maintaining Debian packages for Pacemaker, Heartbeat, Glue,
> and Agents. He's been doing most of the work in a private checkout thus
> far, with the Debian build system bits being kept on alioth.debian.org,
> which made contributions less than easy.
> 
> To improve on this, we've set up "Debian-enabled" copies of the relevant
> Mercurial repositories at hg.linbit.com (please go to
> http://hg.linbit.com/ for an overview). These are intended as a staging
> ground for Debian-specific stuff (read: the stuff that makes up the
> Debian packaging process -- in essence, everything under debian/).
> 
> People interested in contributing patches to the Debian infrastructure
> should pull from there, essentially proceed in analogy to
> http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/Contributing_Patches, and send Martin
> patches. They will be much appreciated.
> 
> There is _no guarantee_ that the staging repositories will always be up
> to date with the latest and greatest found at hg.linux-ha.org or
> hg.clusterlabs.org. Those willing to contribute patches to Pacemaker,
> Agents, Glue or Heartbeat should _not_ pull from hg.linbit.com, but from
> the original repositories instead.

Would it make sense to maintain these changes in the 
hg.linux-ha.org and hg.clusterlabs.org trees?

> At this point, Heartbeat, Glue, and Agents ought to build fine directly
> from a hg clone. YMMV for Pacemaker, we're working on improving that.