Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)
- To: Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>
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- Subject: Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)
- From: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 10:43:10 -0500
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Have I missed the background?
is debian/watch getting renamed to debian/upstream -- where is the
"conflict"?
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:11:41PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > Le Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:06:42AM -0500, James McCoy a écrit :
> > > That being said, I don't have access to most of the packages. Even if I
> > > did, it feels "dirty" to go and commit to a couple hundred packages I
> > > have no involvement with instead of adapting two pieces of software to
> > > deal with both path names.
> > Hi James,
> > you already have commit access to the Debian Med packages, like all other
> > Debian developers. Please go ahead !
> I take this "go ahead" for "yes, I accept the move". While I would have
> no problems with this I wonder if it is appropriate to simply go on here
> without at least informing Debian Science and DebiChem who also maintain
> some d/upstream files. If I might have sounded against the move in the
> past my main problem was that the affected parties were not included into
> the decision making process.
> So I have put the relevant mailing lists in CC to at least give people
> lurking there some heads up and a slight chance to insist.
> I would say: If nobody will insist until after the weekend we might go
> ahead. And for the actual action I agree with Charles that I see no
> problem if James would simply commit a change to Debian Med repositories
> (SVN and Git). That's fine and would save us (me or Charles) some work
> and is perfectly possible permission-wise.
> Kind regards
> Andreas.
> PS: I think I did not got any answer to my question about further plans
> for the debian/upstream/ dir. I would be really happy to understand
> the big picture to make sure we will not again invent something which
> needs to be changed later on.
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