Re: Idea: rsync-based source format
On 14040 March 1977, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Permitted in ftp.d.o Y Y Y - [1]
> Permitted in ftp.d.o for packages
> with delta from upstream - Y Y - [1] <===
> [1] I do not expect any resistance from ftpmaster to supporting this
> in dak and ftp.d.o, and permitting it in uploads, modulo the obvious
> need for a transition period.
This will make NEW a tad more complex: For most of us, NEW review
consists of two shells, one of which runs the NEW tool, the other a tmux
with an mc in it. Which allows *fast* and easy browsing of near any kind
of archive (nested ones too), with the left window in mc presenting the
directory tree[1], the right one a quickview of the file contents. I
don't think an rsync batchfile is supported in mc (yet?) and it seems it
can contain any kind of added files directly, so the happiness about
such a format isn't all too high: It will make NEW processing of
packages using it *WAY* more hassle and *WAY* slower.
Besides that it does, on a first glance, sounds ok.
[1] And with a tiny mc hack (adjusted extension foo) from me, the tree
is layed out in
a
dir/subdir/file
dir/otherdir/file
style, so one doesn't even need to descend, just scroll through the list
of files to see their contents.
--
bye, Joerg
<Sahneschnitter> Aquariophile: welches debian/ welche xfree version?
<Aquariophile> woody
<Aquariophile> Xfree version 86
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