Source: coreutils
Version: 8.13-3.3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Please consider maintaining coreutils in a distributed VCS; this would
make it easier for others to help with the packaging (and could even
make things easier for you). As far as I can tell, git has the best
support (in git-buildpackage):
* Easy importing: if a linear history in dpkg-version-order is fine,
"git-import-dscs --pristine-tar /path/to/*.dsc" gets you that, or
"git-import-dscs --debsnap --pristine-tar coreutils" if you don't
have all the .dscs somewhere (and do have enough space in /tmp).
(Caveat: snapshots.debian.org doesn't have them all, either: even
some recent versions, such as 8.20-1, didn't make it in.)
* Upstream tarball storage: pristine-tar stores enough information to
reconstitute upstream tarballs from the upstream source trees that
git-buildpackage stores anyway, rather than requiring tarballs to be
managed externally.
* Changelogs: git-dch(1) transcribes changelog entries from commits
messages to debian/changelog, which makes it easy to include draft
entries in patches without worrying about merge conflicts.
Of course, the most important thing is that git is a distributed VCS, so
contributors can take full advantage of version control without any
prior arrangement or trust: commit first, ask questions later!
(Actually, the most important thing is to use a VCS: just about any VCS
would at least make it pretty easy to get a useful diff to send in,
whereas it's not at all obvious how to do this with an unpacked & edited
source package.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.9
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii libacl1 2.2.51-8
ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-8
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
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