Bug#498396: Interest in co-maintaining argyll
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:49:53AM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
>Jonas Smedegaard, 2009-03-05 21:57:22 +0100 :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have interest in co-maintaining argyll.
>
> Great :-)
>
>> ...especially if done in git using CDBS :-)
>
> As for git, I like it less and less as time passes.
Please elaborate (or refer to some details somewhere).
I am curious to know your reasons - even if you do not want to discuss
them: I want to learn :-)
> As for CDBS, I don't like it much, but the good news is that it
>shouldn't be needed anyway. The current debian/rules file is mostly
>standard Debhelper stuff, with very little additions, and I'm pretty
>sure it could be reduced to a handful of lines with Debhelper 7.
There is more to CDBS than simplifying debhelper.
Let's look into that later (if you are interested at all): I am
interesting in teaming up with you on this even without using CDBS.
>> That http://bzr.debian.org/users/lolando/argyll/ URL seems empty - is
>> that just me unable to express myself in Bazaar?!?
>
> It appears empty because there's no working tree in there, but the
>data for the branches is present (in .bzr). To get a copy of the
>branch, the command is:
>"bzr branch http://bzr.debian.org/users/lolando/argyll/debian/sid/";
jonas@auryn:BZR$ bzr branch
http://bzr.debian.org/users/lolando/argyll/debian/sid/ argyll
bzr: ERROR: Transport error: Server refuses to fullfil the request
jonas@auryn:BZR$ bzr branch
http://bzr.debian.org/users/lolando/argyll/debian/sid/
bzr: ERROR: Transport error: Server refuses to fullfil the request
Do I need something installed in addition to the "bzr" package?
> If you can live with bzr, I'll probably set up a shared repository,
>either in a dedicated Alioth project or under pkg-phototools.
A year ago I would have declined. Now that I have wrapped my mind around
git I have a feeling I can grasp other distributed VCS'es too.
In other words: YES! Let's go for it!
- Jonas
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