<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4">Hello<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">, <br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">I am working to convert the debian source package for 'dhcpcd5-8.1.2' to a 'git' repository. The basis for this source package was obtained here (<a href="https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/d/dhcpcd5/dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5.dsc">https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/d/dhcpcd5/dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5.dsc</a>)</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">. For purposes of this question, I'll refer to this as the '<span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5' <span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"> source package.</span></font></span></span></font></span></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">My import was done as follows: <br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">'gbp import-dsc --pristine-tar dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5.dsc'</span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">Which has yielded a new folder: '~/dhcpcd5'; <br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></span></font></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">$ git -C /home/pi/dhcpcd5 branch -a<br>* master<br>  pristine-tar<br>  upstream</span><br></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">It seems time to consider the patches that were included in </span><span class="gmail_default">'<span class="gmail_default">dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5'. </span></span><span class="gmail_default">There are currently </span><span class="gmail_default">4 patches in <span class="gmail_default">'<span class="gmail_default">dhcpcd5_8.1.2-1+rpt5', and in `dhcpcd5`. Before starting this effort, I had assumed that the patch system used in Debian packages would become useless when the package was cast as a 'git' repo. However, having now<span class="gmail_default"><span class="gmail_default"> read 'man gbp-pq', I</span></span> understand patches may be carried into git packages.</span></span></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"> <br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">That said, I don't know</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"> if patches</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"> are required - or if they are included in gbp for convenience or legacy considerations.</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"> Can you explain this situation for me, please? I'd like for this git package to be generally useful for all, so if I can achieve this without patches, I think I'd prefer that approach.<br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">Thnx,</span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large">~S<br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"><br></span></font></span></div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:monospace"></span></font><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:monospace"></span></font></div></div>