Hi Ben, Le Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:04:12PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am maintaining a rather large package and have decided to use a > > version control system (SVN). > > An unfortunate choice of VCS, since it is far behind more modern VCS > software for flexibility of management. Any of Git, Bazaar, Darcs, or > (perhaps) Mercurial would be a better choice for a new project IMHO.
Sure, but Andreas wrote that he needs the MergeWithUpstream feature of svn-buildpackage because the upstream source contains non-redistributable material. I would be especially interested by any replacement for this. I am starting to wonder about the viability of keeping the whole upstream sources in a VCS. If a non-redistributable file brought by a new upstream release were accidentally commited (in my case, it would typically be a PDF version of a scientific article), is there a VCS that would allow to permanently delete it? If such file stays in the history, would it be a copyright violation? Which VCS allows the repository to be corrected after such an accident, even if other commits happened in the meantime? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
