Re: Looking for co-maintainer for mercurial

["Ondrej Certik" <ondrej@certik.cz>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Edward Allcutt <ema29@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:05:46AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
>  > This one time, at band camp, Aaron M. Ucko said:
>
> > > Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org> writes:
>  > >
>  > > > BTW, I think that hg is now the only VCS package which is not maintained in its
>  > > > own VCS format. (or are there other packages, too?)
>  > >
>  > > $ apt-cache showsrc rcs | grep Vcs
>  > > Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/rfrancoise/rcs.git
>  > > Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/users/rfrancoise/rcs.git
>  >
>  > cvs is IIRC maintained in svn.
>  So that would make hg the only VCS package maintained in a VCS inferior
>  to itself? :P

That's because hg-buildpackage is not really used much in Debian and
also it seems noone is interested in it much, see also this bug or
rather a wish:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448444

that I reported 4 months ago with no response at all.

Ondrej