Bug#1220: CVS postinst message rather verbose
sr1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Sven Rudolph)
> Is it still necessary to ask in postinst for creating a CVS
> repository? CVS 1.5 contains a standalone cvsinit program
> (/usr/bin/cvsinit) which you can use at any time.
>
> I suggest to delete the cvsinit question in postinst.
That sounds reasonable. I'll do it, unless someone has an objection.
> Possibly a message that points to cvsinit is useful because cvsinit
> has neither a manual page nor is it mentioned in the GNU Info file.
> (The package maintainer could ask the current cvs developers at cyclic
> for these items. They wrote me they have a manual page for cvsinit
> though it isn't in the distribution yet.)
I added a cvsinit man page to the debian cvs package. I probably
should also add "SEE ALSO" references between the cvs and cvsinit
man pages. I'll look at that.
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