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Re: dpkg NMU for slink



On 24 Aug 1998, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:

>     Jason> On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Dan Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
>     >> > There is a CVS server for dpkg on va. Trouble is the people
>     >> > doing nmu's do not have access to it.
>     >>
>     >> In fact, as the guy who started the most recent NMU spree, this
>     >> is the first I've heard of it.
> 
>     Jason> Last time I gave someone doing NMU's access to the CVS
>     Jason> server I got quite flamed, so I"ve stoped. You will have to
>     Jason> talk with Ian (try debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org)
> 
>  Why can't you give them read-only anonymous CVS access, and request
>  that they submit proper patches with ChangeLog entries?  That way you 
>  get valid patches, but don't open the repository up to any eeh-haw
>  with CVS installed who thinks he knows enough C++ to be dangerous?

All CVS on va is anon accessible, the path is something similar to
pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/dpkg

What Ian does with people submitting patches is of course up to him.

Jason


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