importing a project currently under darcs into python-modules svn repo
I have this Python package, python-selecting, which I'm also the
upstream of and which I've been tracking is a Darcs repository. The
instructions in
<http://python-modules.alioth.debian.org/python-modules-policy.html> say
that I should only bring in the debian/ files, preferably with
svn-inject, and leave the .orig.tar.gz outside svn. There are some
gotchas:
- if I import the project with svn-inject, I'll lose the VC history from
the darcs side for svn
- I need to have some place to track the "upstream" source anyway
What is the right way to approach this? I can think of some
alternatives:
(1) Treat the package as if it really had a different upstream and
packager. Take debian/ stuff away from my darcs repo, and put them into
the svn repo.
(1a) don't care about the history of debian/ stuff (this might be okay
as there's not that much of it after all)
(1b) bring the history in with tailor(1), and clean up the non-debian
stuff afterwards
(1c) some way to bring the history in without bringing the
non-debian-specific stuff at all?
(2) Keep the debian/ stuff in my repo and python-modules repo synced by
hand (say, make the directory a svn checkout that just happens to be
under darcs too)
(3) Put the whole project under the python-modules repository, probably
bringing in the VC history, and stop using the darcs repository
What would you recommend?
Panu
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