`cvs-buildpackage': Ideas and features

[karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "srivasta" == srivasta  <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

    srivasta> * Both cvs-inject and cvs-upgrade warn about the
    srivasta>      presence of symbolic links in the upstream
    srivasta>      source. CVS ignores these files, and without the
    srivasta>      warning data could be lost. The operation continues
    srivasta>      without error.

 Any way to parse the output of `tar t', and autogen a shell script
 that creates the symlinks?  You could then `cvs add' that, and commit
 it right away, so it becomes part of every branch.

    srivasta> * Both cvs-inject and cvs-upgrade warn about the
    srivasta>      presence of CVS directories in upstream
    srivasta>      source. This cannot be handled, and the operation
    srivasta>      aborts gracefully, and informs the user fo the
    srivasta>      offending directories.

 Why can't you just use `cvs import ! CVS ...'?


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