Hi,
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 14:46:33 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
For me this sentence is the essence of your mail: That you dislike
Joey's idea since it includes the VCS in the source package itself and
would prefer that we worked on creating a
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:48:44AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
So I don't quite like Joey's idea in its
current form, for the reasons other people have stated on the thread:
*sigh* So dpkg isn't going to support it then?
Cheers,
aj
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:46:33PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
However I'm also convinced that:
- a source package should be unpackable without a VCS. This means that
somehow it should contain a checkout that can be extracted with basic
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
Basically, the way to do this is to do the dbs thing, I think. The
structure of the .tar.gz file would be:
- All content in the .tar.gz file is in a debian subdirectory as packed.
- debian/patches contains
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:51:12AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My point is precisely that it's *NOT* useful now.
No software is useful until it is implemented. wigpen is far from unique
in that regard.
Right, but the git/bzr stuff _is_ implemented...
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:46:33PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
However I'm also convinced that:
- a source package should be unpackable without a VCS. This means that
somehow it should contain a checkout that can be extracted with basic
tools. [1]
I don't think it's feasible to require
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think it's a mistake to separate those -- our source package format is
a VCS system; if wigpen happens to be a more suitable VCS, that's fine,
but it's not inherently superior or inferior to any other VCS, just
because it happens to be
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A VCS is a system for controlling (managing, distributing) versions of a
repository.
A Debian source package is a repository.
It's a changeset or a set of changesets. This is not a repository any
more than a collection of objects is a balanced
Russ Allbery wrote:
(it's not yet clear to me that Git can usefully represent changesets
via feature branches, but that's another argument that is already
ongoing elsewhere).
People are arguing about that because bikeshedding and random discussion
of lattices, is, apparently, fun.
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Hi,
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
For me this sentence is the essence of your mail: That you dislike
Joey's idea since it includes the VCS in the source package itself and
would prefer that we worked on creating a solution on top of wigpen
instead.
Do I understand that
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