Re: git-p4 package in contrib, how to proceed?

2015-11-23 Thread Luke Diamand
Hi! (Resurrecting ancient thread) Has this moved on any further? I couldn't see any sign that there's now a git-p4 package, or any discussion saying that it can't go ahead for some other reason. Has it just been forgotten about? Thanks Luke On 14 January 2015 at 12:18, Luke Diamand

Re: git-p4 package in contrib, how to proceed?

2015-01-14 Thread Luke Diamand
Great, thanks! I left the maintainer on the package as the same as the one for the main git package. If it would be more appropriate for me to be the maintainer, then I'm happy to do that (not that I have the first clue what it means or involves!). On 12 January 2015 at 18:32, Jonathan

Re: git-p4 package in contrib, how to proceed?

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 773245 src:git 1:2.1.3-1 quit Vincent Cheng wrote: Yes, source packages in main can generate binary packages in contrib; Policy does not prevent this from happening, and there are existing source packages in main, in the archive, which generate binary packages in contrib. See e.g.

git-p4 package in contrib, how to proceed?

2015-01-10 Thread Luke Diamand
Hi! I'm trying to create a package for 'git-p4', a python script which mirrors between git and Perforce (the latter is a proprietary version control system). I'm looking for advice on the best way to do this. The source code lives in the upstream git repository, but isn't packaged with the

Re: git-p4 package in contrib, how to proceed?

2015-01-10 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Luke Diamand l...@diamand.org wrote: Hi! I'm trying to create a package for 'git-p4', a python script which mirrors between git and Perforce (the latter is a proprietary version control system). I'm looking for advice on the best way to do this. The source