Package: svn-buildpackage
Version: 0.8.0
Severity: wishlist

In the Debian Perl Group, we're currently using svn-buildpackage to manage
around 1600 packages (and growing). For the most part this is working fine,
so many thanks for all your work on svn-buildpackage so far!

However, with such a large number of packages, the trunk/branches/tags
directories are becoming rather large. This can make some work on the
repository quite slow, and makes it difficult to navigate the repository
with the web interfaces, etc.

I was wondering whether it would be possible to add new layout options that
would instruct svn-buildpackage to break up these directories by letter,
similar to the pool layout in the archive, i.e.

trunk/liba/
    libacme-bleach-perl
    libacme-damn-perl
    ...
trunk/libb/
    libbarcode-code128-perl
    libbenchmark-progressbar-perl
    ...

I'm not sure if this should be another option to '-l', or possibly a
separate option. It would probably be useful for repositories in either
layout.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages svn-buildpackage depends on:
ii  devscripts                   2.10.64     scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  file                         5.04-2      Determines file type using "magic"
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl         0.07-1      module to capture STDOUT and STDER
ii  libfile-libmagic-perl        0.96-1      Perl interface to libmagic for det
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl       1.05-6      Using libc functions for internati
ii  libsvn-perl                  1.6.9dfsg-1 Perl bindings for Subversion
ii  liburi-perl                  1.54-1      module to manipulate and access UR
ii  perl                         5.10.1-13   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  subversion                   1.6.9dfsg-1 Advanced version control system
ii  unp                          1.0.15      unpack (almost) everything with on
ii  wget                         1.12-2      retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages svn-buildpackage recommends:
ii  debhelper                     7.4.20     helper programs for debian/rules

svn-buildpackage suggests no packages.

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-- 
Chris Butler <chr...@debian.org>
  GnuPG Key ID: 4096R/49E3ACD3



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