Re: track bugs in VCS, not the other way around

2008-05-22 Thread Sam Vilain
martin f krafft wrote: Let's assume for a minute that we accept that VCSs are the way forward and start to consider how we could track bugs in the VCS, alongside the code. Start to think about it this way, and stuff suddenly neatly aligns, at least in my world. Suddenly you can commit a

Let's kill this part of the discussion right away [was: Re: How to cope with patches sanely]

2008-02-29 Thread Sam Vilain
Manoj Srivastava wrote: And no, I can do this using plain old arch, and I don't really have to change my SCM. But not all Debian maintainers are using git; Version control systems that have content-addressable filesystems (essentially, git and Monotone) are inherently

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-28 Thread Sam Vilain
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Feature branches don't magically allow you to avoid merge conflicts either, so this is a red herring. Once you've resolved the conflict, then it becomes just another change. This change can become a diff in a stack of diffs. This whole message is a red

Re: How to cope with patches sanely

2008-02-28 Thread Sam Vilain
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Yes. Feature branches are effectively forking a particular version of a project - this is not a problem, and is essential for efficient development. People jumbling together changes in trunk branches is perhaps one of the worst upshots of the 2002-2006 or so obsession

Sandboxing Debian [was: Re: chroot administration]

2002-08-15 Thread Sam Vilain
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc Is someone going to package this for Debian? One person has announced that he is going to try on the list, though they are not an official debian developer. I have made a package, too, and will make it

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-14 Thread Sam Vilain
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Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-07 Thread Sam Vilain
: No. Debian can not support the use of rsync for anything other than mirroring, APT will never support it. Why? Because if everyone used rsync, the loads on the servers that supported rsync would be too high? Or something else? -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]WWW: http://sam.vilain.net

Re: package pool and big Packages.gz file

2001-01-07 Thread Sam Vilain
files for a couple of old revs per packages against the uncompressed contents of packages to allow small changes to packages to be quick. Or perhaps implement this as patch packages, which are a special .deb that only contain the changed files and upgrade the package. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL

Re: console-tools vs kbd, fix listed in bug report?!

2001-01-04 Thread Sam Vilain
interface. Stick in the ability to assign bugs to other people. Perhaps even a standalone client. Maybe even get some customer service going, and draw up some guidelines for how long it should take for bugs to be responded to, etc. Cheers, Sam. On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:54:56 + Sam Vilain [EMAIL

console-tools vs kbd

2000-12-31 Thread Sam Vilain
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=71768repeatmerged=yes Is there any news on a fix? Happy New Year, -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]WWW: http://sam.vilain.net/ GPG public key: http://sam.vilain.net/sam.asc

Re: Scary mailing list, Re: Scary bugs

2000-01-29 Thread Sam Vilain
. This is okay, unless it's now a discussion list. Thank you. -- Andreas Wohlfeld - Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]WWW: http://www.vilain.net/~sam