autoforwardportergit, automating the merging of downstream changes
Channel: DebConf Videos
Date: 2019-06-07

by Peter Michael Green

At: Mini-DebConf Marseille 2019
https://minidebconf-mrs.debian.net/

I co-founded the Raspbian project, to provide an armv6 hard-float variant of Debian, to do this local changes were needed in a number of packages and manually bringing these forward to the new versions from Debian rapidly became a drag.
Therefore I developed the autoforwardporter tool to automate this process, initially it was based around debdiff and patch, but after some discussions with Ian Jackson I decided it was a good idea to rebuild it around dgit. I later took steps to generalise the tool so it would be useable by projects other than Raspbian.

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Scheduled start: 2019-05-25 10:40:00