Aw: Re: RFS: maven-plugin-tools/2.8-3

["Steffen Möller" <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

> 
> > Hmmm....
> > 
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-java/maven-plugin-tools.git
> > 
> > This is why I was confused.  It looks like Thomas Koch converted the
> > packaging at some point (March of 2013?) and I had cloned it.
> > 
> > I'll get the change from SVN and upload, but we should kill one of the
> > repos.
> 
> Hmm... I didn't see the Git repository, I just checked out the source
> with debcheckout and it used the Vcs field of the last uploaded package.
> This kind of repository migration should always be finalized by an
> upload, otherwise it's error prone.

With Debian Med we have the original, typically the svn, substituted with a
README.status file

debian-med/packages $ cat samtools/trunk/README.status
---
Format: 1
Status: git
SVNDeleteRevision: 8022
URL: git://git.debian.org/debian-med/samtools.git
Comment: >
  This package is now managed in a Git repository.

Cheers,

Steffen (liking subversion better for packaging)