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Re: darcs.debian.org broken?



On Sun, 19 Jul 2015, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Samstag, den 18.07.2015, 22:08 +0200 schrieb Alexander Wirt:
> > On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, James McCoy wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 08:24:51PM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote:
> > > > DUCK [1] just informed me, that there are ~750 issues with VCS
> > > > -Darcs URLS [2], mosty 404. This seems to be the fact since now 3 
> > > > days. Please take care of that.
> > > 
> > > This is due to the Darcs repositories being decommissioned[0] and 
> > > moved
> > > to git.
> > > 
> > > [0]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2015/07/msg00060.html
> > Yeah, knowing this in advance would helped me not to do a debug 
> > session on alioth..
> > 
> 
> 
> sorry.
> 
> Maybe the idea of having some data that is only useful if up-to-date
> (where the VCS is) inside something that we want to be static (package
> metadata) is bad design...
> 
> Anyways, we expect to do sourceful uploads of all Haskell packages when
> we land GHC-7.10 in Debian, sometime the coming weeks. By that time, we
> will update the VCS fields.
> 
> Speaking of which: Do you have any good suggestion about what the VCS
> -Git field should actually say, given that we have one git repository
> with packages in subdirectories?
tbh, I wouldn't have done this. I don't see a good solution to make this work
well, in opposite to svn it is not possible to checkout/address subfolders in
git.

Alex

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