Re: tarballs - why in SVN?

["Eddy Petrişor" <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>]

On 14/08/06, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> wrote:
> "Eddy Petriÿor" <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> writes:
> > I was wondering, since SVN can't check out just one file, orig
> > tarballs do not change for a release and every new upstream release
> > will bring a new version, does it make sense in keeping orig tarballs
> > in SVN? I would say no and suggest moving all of them in the web
> > sapace or the FTP space of the project. This will not force somebody
> > wanting to build a package to checkout hundereds of MB just for one
> > 500kB file.
> >
> > What do you say?
>
> I'd prefer having the full source in svn. At least for the packages
> 'scorched3d' and 'openal', possibly for 'freealut' as well.
>
> As I don't use svn-buildpackage at all, removing the source from the
> SVN makes it painful for me to construct the source package.

Nobody said a thing against sources in svn (yet :-D ), I was
complainaing about the orig tarballs themselves like they are in
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/tarballs/

I don't see any reason to have the packaged tarballs in SVN and was
suggesting to move all the tarballs under ftp or http space.

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Regards,
EddyP
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