Re: RFC: Central version control for Debian

[Michael Neuffer <neuffer@mail.uni-mainz.de>]

Quoting Brian May (bam@debian.org):
> >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>     Julian> It's no easier, possibly harder.  But you can't do a "cvs
>     Julian> diff" with apt.
> 
> What would you use cvs diff for?
> 
> (debian changes compared with upstream are already stored, or should
> be stored, in diff form)

But you do not have the history. At the moment we are only keeping
the most recent version and the snapshots of the Debian releases.

This is simply not enough.


Mike