[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#855494: SVN to Git migration status

[Thorsten Alteholz]

Hi everybody,

On Fri, 1 Dec 2017, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>>    * I never liked the split of one upstream source into lots of SVN
>>>      checkouts in different source packages.  Those who are working on
>>>      that set of packages need to do stupid repeated work for no good
>>>      reason and I really regret that I added myself as Uploader which
>>>      seems to be a good reason for other Uploaders to leave with this
>>>      kind of boring work they introduced in the first place

when I did some work on these packages, only the released versions did 
have a tarball, whereas all the release candidates only existed as tags in 
the repositories.
Meanwhile I only see a source tarball for 1.5.6, but there are release 
tags for 1.5.7 and 1.6.0 ...

>> Well. It is not _that_ easy since in general our ftpmasters like to have
>> this all separated.
>
> Erm, why?  There is a *single* download tarball.  Since when asks
> ftpmaster for separating its content?

ftpmasters don't like a tarball of tarballs.

    Thorsten