Re: debian-science repository structure

[David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>]

As a followup to my last message, let me be more precise (and
positive!) and say that the layout proposed by Manual Prinz and
modified by Charles Plessy sounds good to me.

Charles wrote the following: 

-- debian science
   +-- homepage
   +-- packages
        +-- b
	    +-- bar
            +-- baz
        +-- f
	    +-- foo
   +-- policy
   +-- tasks
   +-- ...

Each leaf of this tree would be a git repository.  I guess we will
want a "tools" repo almost immediately.

In order to keep things moving, I created directory
/git/debian-science/packages/s and put sketch.git there. If the
concensus is against this organization, it can easily be changed; it
is just a directory.  I have also deleted sketch from debian-science
svn. Note that this not that drastic, since the old revisions are
still there.  I am pushing here a bit because I have packages with dangling 
VCS-svn fields (pointing to the old pkg-science), and I want to fix that.

By the way, people converting from a /debian only svn repo may find
the following interesting:

http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/03/git-buildpackage_from_debian-only_to_debian+upstream/

Also, I think whomever is sythesizing git instructions should also look at

http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git?highlight=%28CategoryAlioth%29

I'm not sure if --shared is completely necessary, but I think the post-update hook is 
required for the git http access to work.