Re: CVS directories in debian packages
>>"Bernhard" == Bernhard R Link <blink@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
Bernhard> While I think this is true for finished packages, I think having
Bernhard> CVS in an source-package can make sense for experimental packages
Bernhard> to be shared between an group of people. Beeing able to
Bernhard> unpack it and first update it to the newest upstream-version
Bernhard> is quite nice. (There are other possiblities for it, but I think
Bernhard> this has it's uses).
Let me see.
a) If you have your CVS repository local to you your ./CVS/Root would
contain a local file path, and would be useless to people not on
the same machine, whether or not you have remote access to your
repository.
b) If you have remote access to your repository, why are people not
using that directly? Why must they go through untarring the
sources?
c) You anre now locking out anyone who may want to use a local
repository and send you patches from known, released versions.
So, if you have a central, distributed repository, having
direct access is better (allows checkin), and the CVS dirs in sources
do not add much; but seriously hampers people who may want revision
control, but not your repository.
manoj
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