[storm] New lp:~storm/storm/packaging branch

[Jamu Kakar]

Hi Jason,

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Jason Baker <jbaker at zeomega.com> wrote:
> Just out of sheer curiosity, what is the purpose of this change?  What
> advantages are there to doing things that way?

The primary purpose of the change, at least the reason I made it, is
to keep the mainline history clean.  I use AutoPPA to build packages
and if you look back in the history you'll see fair amount of noise
created as a result of AutoPPA merging changes made to produce a
build back into trunk.  Using a separate packaging branch alleviates
this and keeps trunk a pure upstream branch.  It's a pattern that
subunit uses, and I think Bazaar too.

I've been told by real packagers (I'm mostly a faker) that this kind
of separation is preferred because it's somehow easier for them to
make changes.  I don't fully understand why this is, to be honest.

Anyway, preparation for the release such updating the NEWS file,
bumping version numbers and so on will still happen in trunk.
Release tarballs will still be created from trunk.  When this
happens trunk will be merged to packaging and packages builds will
be made.

Hope this helps,
J.