Re: [DebianGIS] Two weeks to get QGIS into the next Ubuntu 9.04 release
- To: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com>
- Cc: qgis-developer <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>, cavallini@faunalia.it, DebianGIS <pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>, ubuntugis@lists.launchpad.net
- Subject: Re: [DebianGIS] Two weeks to get QGIS into the next Ubuntu 9.04 release
- From: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:30:34 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:36:56AM +1100, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>> Independent of that, I would guess that DebianGIS wants to maintain its
>> own repo for branches, non-ubuntu tweaks, etc. But perhaps the core could
>> be linked/imported from the QGIS repo with a SVN external link*, and then
>> minorly patched in the DebianGIS repo, as required?
>>
Unfortunately merging using svn is not a great idea, that's not git
or mercurial. I basically see not great advantage in respect with
lurking external repos from time to time to check for interesting
changes. BTW, the true problem is finding a maintainer who is able to
and would take responsability at long term, not repository location.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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