I demand that Pierre Habouzit may or may not have written... > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:26:04AM +0000, Andreas Tille wrote: >> What would you suggest to enhance the situation?
> For one, I'm not sure the "situation" is that horrible. Second, I believe > joeyh's proposal to be able to use some DSCM features to replace the old > diff.gz is an excellent proposal, OTOH, you will have a lot of people > complaining about having to use git (for his proposal) or $DSCM. Count me in - I don't get on well with git... :-) I'd say "use mercurial", but see below. > See alioth, we have mercurial, git, svn, still a few CVS users, arch and > bzr. There are zealots for at least 3 of them, and people that will never > want to learn anything but svn. Whatever DSCM is used, it needs history truncation. This rules out mercurial (at present? certainly 0.9.5); I tarred up the bits needed to recreate a checked-out repository of xine-lib - 8.6MB orig.tar.gz (1.1.9.1), 28MB hg.tar.gz (tip, but the changes since 1.1.9.1 don't amount to much). > I don't think there is One True Solution, though there are probably ways to > allow _any_ of the $DSCM to be used (and let's svn rot *cough*) Er, "let us svn rot"? ;-) > and have some Debian specific wrappers to allow the basic operations > (commit, checkout, ...) to be transparent to the people not knowing about a > specific $DSCM. E.g. I discovered debcheckout(1) recently that uses the > Vcs-* headers. This is IMHO the way to go. So no need for .git.tar.gz, then - just carry on shipping .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz, and use debcheckout if you need the history. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> Things work better when plugged in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
