On 07:04 Sat 13 Apr , Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Vasudev Kamath (kamathvasudev@gmail.com): > > > Not a wizard but yes I can definitely have look. I moved fonts-droid as > > fonts-android into Git using the same method. > > > > Considering amount of packages we have problem is that this process is > > bandwidth hungry and I'm short of bandwidth and internet speed > > :-(. Can we use debian infrastructure (may be on alioth or some where > > else) to do this conversion. Can any one suggest any other alternative? > > The conversion can be done on alioth, I think. > > I do it on my build machine, then I just have to scp the final result > to alioth....but I'm lucky enough to not be short on bandwidth as you > can guess. Yeah the EU internet speed and amount of bandwidth is amazing :-) > > So, for sure, for people short in it, working on alioth is > fine. Indeed, the example in http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git assumes > that the work is done there (indeed on git.debian.org, so namely on > vasks.d.o That's great I will do it on alioth and once git repository is initialized I will remove converted repository (simply don't want to consume space on alioth) > > > May be we can have a wiki page or something like this where we can list > > all packages and mark who is moving which package to git so that we > > avoid duplication of work. I will try to generate this page. > > > This will definitely be appreciated, yes. I'm working on this. > > While doing that, I also make a few changes to packages: see recent > history in fonts-arabeyes: > * Update Standards to 3.9.4 (checked) > * Bump debhelper compatibility to 9 > * Drop ttf-arabeyes transitional package > * Add "Multi-Arch: foreign" field > * Use "Breaks" instead of "Conflicts". Drop "Provides" as it is no > longer needed (installations should have transitioned since wheezy > and the package has anyway no reverse dependency. > * Use xz extreme compression for deb packages > * Use git for packaging: adapt Vcs-* fields > Sure I will add it as guidelines on the same wiki page -- Vasudev Kamath http://copyninja.info Connect on ~friendica: copyninja@{frndk.de | vasudev.homelinux.net} IRC nick: copyninja | vasudev {irc.oftc.net | irc.freenode.net} GPG Key: C517 C25D E408 759D 98A4 C96B 6C8F 74AE 8770 0B7E
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