Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 24 décembre 2008 à 00:48 +0100, Ondrej Certik a écrit : Imho if we are going to only version the debian dir, then I also don't see such a strong argument for git (or other distributed vcs). Since it will still need to fiddle with upstream tarball and also with debian/patches +

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-24 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: TTBOMK no other VCS is as smooth to operate as subversion *for Debian packages*. Only svn-buildpackage can handle correctly the versioning of the debian/ directory alone. What mis-handlings of a separate ‘debian/’ directory do you know of in the other

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-24 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: Precisely. TTBOMK no other VCS is as smooth to operate as subversion *for Debian packages*. Only svn-buildpackage can handle correctly the versioning of the debian/ directory alone. bzr bd works fine in this mode; did you try it out? -- Loïc

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-24 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 00:48, Ondrej Certik ond...@certik.cz wrote: thanks for the points, I reacted to some. so please accept my reply :) On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: P.S. bzed, POX, isn't it time to move our packaging to git? I'm none of them, but