[Debichem-devel] What about cloning Debian GIS (or Debian Med) policy?

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 08:44:35AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> since I think OpenMM is better suited inside DebiChem than Debian Med I
> decided to put it into DebiChem space.  Upstream seems to be comfortable
> with Git more than SVN and since there are some packages in DebiChem
> also maintained in Git I'm naively assuming that you are fine with SVN
> or Git at maintainers preference.

Sure.

> To simplify creating Git directories I shamelessly copied the setup
> script from Debian Science into
> 
>    /git/debichem/packages/setup-repository

I think you should coordinate this with Filippo Rusconi, as he is using
git most extensively right now.  Whatever you two agree on I am fine
with, of course.
 
> This fits with various policies of packaging teams (originally invented
> by Debian Perl team).  Speaking about a team policy IMHO it would help
> to invite newcomers if you would maintain such a document also for
> DebiChem.  Recently the Debian GIS team cloned and adapted the Debian
> Med policy document.  Thus I would recommend cloning from Debian GIS
> since this has undergone some revision and might contain some
> enhancements which are not (yet implemented in Debian Med policy).
 
I'll try to review that policy, but not sure when I'll get around to it.

Thanks for pushing this, in any case!


Michael