On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:23:51 +0200 Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > > > > Get dpkg-cross merged into dpkg as soon as multiarch is supportable. > > > Outlined above. > > BTW, anyone have any strong feelings about moving dpkg-cross repo from CVS > to git? Yes, me. I don't want to use git for anything. Subversion is the only real option if you want me to still work with dpkg-cross and you want to move from CVS. Sorry. I detest git and refuse to use it. dpkg-cross is trivial, it doesn't warrant the overkill of a system designed for massive projects like the Linux kernel. IMNSHO git is being abused by overuse with projects that just don't warrant such a tool. TBH, I don't see that CVS is that much of an issue for dpkg-cross, there is very little left to do in dpkg-cross before it is migrated into dpkg. There is already an old version of dpkg-cross in Emdebian SVN, it only needs to be brought up to date with current CVS and then declared in debian/control VCS fields. http://www.emdebian.org/svn/browser/current/host/trunk/dpkg-cross/trunk I don't think we need to alioth setup anymore, dpkg-cross >= 2.0 is really an Emdebian-only thing - it certainly will need to be to be merged into dpkg and dpkg-dev. True, the merge itself might be easier via git but the final steps need to be done in CVS/SVN and then you can use whatever tool you like to accomplish the actual merge but I don't think it's worth making changes in dpkg-cross using git. The merge should be after the final, final, final release of dpkg-cross. (The merge won't happen until after multiarch is working anyway.) It's fairly pointless changing the tool at this stage of the life of dpkg-cross, that is why I didn't complete the change from CVS to SVN. It wasn't worth it. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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