Hi everybody, my name is Hauke (yes, I use my middle name for everyday talk) and I'm a Debian Maintainer who's interested in this project. Enough introduction? :)
Some time ago I started contributing to svn-buildpackage, a build helper for Debian packages which are stored in subversion repositories. Unfortunately it's quite buggy and needs some major re-engineering. When I first brought up that point I felt like the contributors escaping -- obviously they don't want to make svn-bp better. OTOH that means I'm almost free in what I'm doing about it. :) After some thinking I started implementing a Repository class as an intelligent wrapper around SVN::Client (OOP in perl is weird by the way). It became more and more difficult and I already thought it could go as a Google Summer of Code project but... Writing a new VCS based packaging helper does not make any sense without considering current efforts in abstracting things. And basically that's why I'm here now: I don't want to write a tool that's about to be replaced anyways any time soon. So, how far have you come by now? Is it worth putting energy in vcs-pkg and is there any chance that we get a working replacement for svn-bp out of it before squeeze freezes? Otherwise I would have to concentrate more on svn-bp since it really needs a new version (it won't work with squeeze's archive because of Format 3.0 (quilt)!). Hauke PS: I'm thinking about attending debconf this year. If there were any discussions about vcs-pkg it would be incitement. :)
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