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Re: Is there any point in loading SVN with outdated upstream source?



Yes, I really don't like having the sources into the svn...
I have done it for parmetis

Sylvestre
Le mercredi 04 avril 2012 à 21:49 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> Hi Sylvestre,
> 
> same is true for parmetis.  Would you consider removing this or use Git?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:04:20PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I stumbled upon
> > 
> >     svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-science/packages/arpack/branches/upstream
> > 
> > which is featuring 75MByte of code which is definitely not Debian
> > packaging related.  This code is probably wasting useless space on
> > several harddiscs of developers who have a complete checkout of Debian
> > Science SVN.  I would love if we could agree to not keep this code
> > inside SVN.  If there is really a need to keep upstream code the
> > packaging of this software should probably be moved to Git where it
> > is policy to keep upstream code anyway.
> > 
> > I guess arpack is just an example and I would love if others would
> > check their packages whether some cleanup would be possible.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> >         Andreas.
> > 
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