Re: Trying to understand patch management - in combination with version control
Hi Ben,
Le Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:04:12PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit :
> Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de> writes:
>
> > I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a
> > version control system (SVN).
>
> An unfortunate choice of VCS, since it is far behind more modern VCS
> software for flexibility of management. Any of Git, Bazaar, Darcs, or
> (perhaps) Mercurial would be a better choice for a new project IMHO.
Sure, but Andreas wrote that he needs the MergeWithUpstream feature of
svn-buildpackage because the upstream source contains
non-redistributable material.
I would be especially interested by any replacement for this. I am
starting to wonder about the viability of keeping the whole upstream
sources in a VCS. If a non-redistributable file brought by a new
upstream release were accidentally commited (in my case, it would
typically be a PDF version of a scientific article), is there a VCS that
would allow to permanently delete it? If such file stays in the history,
would it be a copyright violation? Which VCS allows the repository to be
corrected after such an accident, even if other commits happened in the
meantime?
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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