Re: status of packages
> Charles:
>> I sometimes use a debian/DRAFT file in the draft
>> packages I upload, but would be happy to use debian/README.status instead.
Thorsten:
> I would like to separate the debian directory from the README.status. One of my
> aims was to remove all unneeded packaging information (tag, trunk) from the
> repository. If someone really needs to have a look at the old stuff, he has to
> checkout the revision before the 'svn delete'.
Hi Thorsten,
sorry to be a bit late to realise: I remember why I was putting files like
trunk/debian/RETIRED in the Subversion repositories of packages I migrated to
Git: deleting the trunk directory without waiting for a release cycle will
break the VCS URLs in the stable release.
Cheers,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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