> That causes problems when newcomers don't want to learnAgreed, so why not helping with it? Again, why not helping here?
> deprecated packaging methods, and aren't allowed to update packages to use
> the recommended helper.
> Back on the VCS question, I fear that the 'all or nothing' road will circleNow you did point out one discrepancy, which hinders newcomers, and you do want
> back to 'nothing' for a long time. I think that we should allow some
> packages to live in git without forcing a complete migration, so individual
> maintainers can use the VCS they're more comfortable with. Most open source
> programmers have at least a basic familiarity with both, so it shouldn't be
> such an obstacle to working on other packages.
>
> We wouldn't be the only team doing this - Debian Games Team, for example,
> use both git and svn for packaging:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS
to introduce another one?