On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:34:08PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > So what, in your opinion, are the technologies (or significant packages) > > which should be in Debian but are not? And why do you think they are > > not? > > Subversion. It's currently deliberately held out of sarge[1] by an RC > report[2], Branden Robinson requests violation of policy (adding > debugging symbols) for it is alpha quality. However, this is no longer > true[3], and next month 1.0 will be released[4]. They have a very > precise schedule, and tend to stick to it. > > Since subversion's popularity is rising very quickly, it would be a pity > if our next stable Debian release would not contain this invaluable > development tool, of which I believe will be replacing CVS very fast > (its principle of coherent changes in one coherent commit is vastly > superior to CVS, not to name its clear and easier to understand > tagging&branching metaphor). As I understand it, Subversion 0.37.0-1, uploaded to unstable yesterday, should be able to get into testing. -- G. Branden Robinson | Lowery's Law: Debian GNU/Linux | If it jams -- force it. If it branden@debian.org | breaks, it needed replacing anyway. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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