[med-svn] r7600 - trunk/community/website/docs

[Charles Plessy]

Author: plessy
Date: 2011-08-31 12:57:49 +0000 (Wed, 31 Aug 2011)
New Revision: 7600

Modified:
   trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Instructions about the VCS URL when migrating a package to Git.


Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2011-08-30 22:29:31 UTC (rev 7599)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2011-08-31 12:57:49 UTC (rev 7600)
@@ -473,6 +473,12 @@
 		        <para>Upload to git.debian.org/git/debian-med and set up the hooks and other meta-data as explained in the <ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git">Alioth/Git</ulink> page of the Debian wiki.
 		      </para>
 		      </listitem>
+		      <listitem>
+		        <para>Document in the Subversion repository that the package has been transferred elsewhere, for instance with a file named <filename>now_managed_via_git</filename> containing the new VCS URL.</para>
+		      </listitem>
+		      <listitem>
+		        <para>Delete the package in the Subversion repository after its VCS URL in Stable has been updated by the next release.</para>
+		      </listitem>
 		    </itemizedlist>
 		      <para>It is also possible to prepare a Git repository containing some of the package's history using the command <command>git-import-dscs --debsnap</command> from the helper toolkit <command>git-buildpackage</command>. This will download all the versions of a package available in <ulink url="http://snapshot.debian.org">snapshots.debian.org</ulink> and create tags for each of them. Note that as this paragraph is written, the tool is not aware that <emphasis>backports</emphasis> should be a different branch</para>
 		</sect2>