[Debian-med-packaging] permission of rules in MEME

[Faheem Mitha]

Hi Andreas,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Andreas Tille wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:06:58PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:

>> faheem at orwell:/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0p2/debian$ hg dif --git
>> diff --git a/rules b/rules
>> old mode 100644
>> new mode 100755

> BTW, this is the first occurance where I see three VCSes involved:
> Using hg with git option to work on svn. ;-)
>
> If you prefer DVCS we could switch meme packaging from SVN to git if you
> like (and nobody else insists).

Well, I don't think my opinion matters for a team I'm not on, but
since you asked...

I personally don't have much use for Subversion. I do think that DVCS has 
significant usability advantages over SVN, even for a single person 
project. For a group project the benefits are bigger. Also Subversion is 
just technically poorer.

I don't really use Git. I've used Mercurial since early 2006 and like it. 
I think the choice is between these two; no other option has that kind of 
traction. My impresion is that Mercurial is more user friendly and has a 
better UI. However, Git is very popular with Debian, as I expect you know, 
and seems to be dominant with free software users and developers.

I suggest asking your team what they think. If you do convert, you'll
probably want to put the packaging for each individual package into a
separate repos, and possibly tie them together. Mercurial has
subrepos. Git has submodules, and maybe other stuff.

There is also joeyh's mr (http://joeyh.name/code/mr/).

                                                       Regards, Faheem