Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Martin Meredith [Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:05:11 +0000]:

Hey Martin,

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> >   * history: I haven't seen this argument fly be in (this and other
> >     instances of) this discussion, but the answer is that the proper
> >     place to record that you had an extra and fatal space in your rules
> >     file is your VCS. (And FWIW, I think much of this discussion would
> >     go away if sponsorship was VCS-based rather than dsc+diff.gz based.)

> That actually sounds like an interesting project. Something I might start 
> hacking on.

Uhm, what needs hacking, exactly? The sponsoree just says "Repo for the
package is at $URL", no? Or do you mean some kind of integration with
mentors.debian.net?

Cheers,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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