[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#948372: Please push your changes to nibabel

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi Yaroslav,

> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:50:07AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

> > > I think it would be helpful if you would remove the old repository
> > > in neurodebian-team.

> > shouldn't I (you) just "move" it on salsa under debian-med and then push
> > updated branches?  so if anyone clones old url, it would get redirected
> > to the new one?

> > otherwise I would probably need not just to remove it (imagine ppl doing
> > debcheckout on stable debian with older urls) but add some README
> > describing the move

> I admit I have no idea how I can technically move a repository.  Since I

googled up
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/

    Navigate to your project’s Settings > General > Advanced settings.
    Under “Transfer project”, choose the namespace you want to transfer the
    project to.
    Confirm the transfer by typing the project’s path as instructed.

so I should be able to transfer over to debian-med.  May be rename yours
into nibabel-med-initial  so I could do it?


> do not have permission to remove from neurodebian-team I doubt that any
> move is possible.  Thus I simply forked.  I agree with you that it would
> be better to inform the user directly.  I was simply trusting that any
> user of the repository would read out the current Vcs-Git fields from
> unstable - but I agree with you that its not sure that every user will
> do this.

> In any case the old repository is now lagging behind the new one in
> med-team.  That's the worst situation while your suggestion to simply
> drop a README there would be the best.  Simply removing it and let users
> seek in case they do not find anything is somewhere inbetween those two
> situations. ;-)

let's try moving first? ;)

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Yaroslav O. Halchenko
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