On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 23:01 +1100, Russell Sim wrote: > Hi, > > I have been watching this bug for a while with interest. I have tried > and failed to find copies of the package referred to in a previous > email. Since then I have been maintaining my own version of libgit2 for > a library I develop. Recently I have had the time to enhance the > packages I have been using to make them more applicable to the Debian > project. I have uploaded them to mentors.debian.net [1]. So at this > point I am interested contributing to the packaging of this library in > what ever way I can, I am happy to try and find a mentor if necessary > unless someone on this list is interested?.
Thanks for taking the time to do this. One reason I haven't advanced too much on this (other than a version I have locally) is the issue of the clay script, which I wasn't too sure was DFSG compatible (though re-reading the rules, it looks like I was mixing them with the GPL's requirement that software be in its preferred editable form), though I guess the FTP admin team would have the last say. Another reason is that I don't know how much sense it makes to package the released version, as we've made a lot of bugfixes and added features since then, and during the pre-1.0 stage, there won't be any bugfix releases, so it might make more sense to create snapshot packages. A thing I do take issue with is the short description, which claims libgit2 implements the "Git DVCS", but that's not what it does. It's an implementation of the core git functions and it doesn't try to replicate everything git does, but provide the functionality so you can write your own tools on top of it. Cheers, cmn
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