Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org> writes: > A while ago my AM told me that CVS directories shouldn't go into package > source, and to tell upstream please to remove them. I answered that I'll do > it for the next version of the package: now we are at it, I tried to ask > upstream, but he replied that CVS dirs were useful to him, because when > someone reported a bug he uses to tell him something like "please try to > see if it works in CVS version, upgrade with this command within the > source". "Please use cvs -d:bla:/dir login and cvs -d:bla:/dir co module to get the latest development version and try if it appears there too" > So I'm here to ask you if he is right and this my be a correct reason, > or if there is something wrong with this, and what to tell him. CVS dirs in release tarballs is useless. If he wants everyone to have that he should make no releases. > Also if he finally refuses this, should I repackage orig.tar.gz without CVS > dirs or should I leave them, as he has asked, in order to let also debian > people to try his "debugging method" (of course after an apt-get source, > at least...). I would remove them. -- begin OjE-ist-scheisse.txt bye, Joerg Encrypted Mail preferred! Registered Linux User #97793 @ http://counter.li.org end
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