On Fri, 29 Dec 2017, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2017, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > On Dec 29, Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > Please propose a solution for reusing the name without breaking renamed and > > > not yet migrated repos. > > Ignore the renamed repositories: if somebody renamed them then they > > obviously expected to have to update the VCS URLs anyway. > > Switch the anonscm name when alioth will be shut down: the people who > > have already migrated can keep pushing to the old repository as well to > > keep it in sync. > > This is not perfect, but it is still better than having to update > > countless packages. > > > > > Of course you are now one year to late. > > I do not think that it is our fault to find out just now that a major > > feature of alioth would be broken. > All discussions and logs were public and we asked several times for > discussion and help. But I am already working on some > redirect map generator. And just following your proposal would still leave us with several thousand broken packages (Debian vs. collab-maint, teams have different paths and so on). It just won't work, the solution has to be more sophisticated. Alex
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