Hi Sandro, On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Sandro Tosi wrote: > It seems to me like very vocal Git fanatics, who refuse to touch any > package which is not maintained in Git (-.-), are pushing and pushing > to that VCS without any clear advantage.
You might dismiss those people but you're speaking of true contributors that you're aleniating here. If we really want to stay an all-inclusive team we should use what the majority of (possible) contribtuors prefer to use. python-modules is about the only team I'm part of that is not yet using git. It's an annoyance to have to continue to use svn-buildpackage when I only use git everywhere else. > Upstream releases history? why do we need to care, we are packagers we > should care about packaging commits history. Because your packaging decisions are not influenced by upstream changes? > from the VCS again? seems kinda twisted to me :) And no, not the whole > programming world is using Git for upstream code (sometimes we're not > even able to teach upstream to use proper versions), so the usual > mantra "I can pull from upstream repo and be happy ever after" is > kinda weak. Not everybody is using git but I think that you should face it, most of the upstreams projects do. > is there anything else so "attractive" about git? It's 200% more easy to manage multiple branches and merge them properly. Most of the average python modules will not need multiple branches but for things like python-django, we do need multiple branches... and the fact that svn is such a pain means that the security updates were not managed in svn for example... And handling security updates in svn is a pain because you can't commit localy and push only when the security update is disclosed publicly. etc. All those are real problems for real people doing packaging work. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140827084040.gc23...@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com