[Debichem-devel] Gromacs migration to Git (Was: What about SVN to Git migration)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Nicholas,

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 06:58:12AM -0800, Nicholas Breen wrote:
> 
> No, I just don't want to package 2018-beta1 specifically, as it's (entirely
> reasonably for a first beta) rather buggy.  Later betas and RCs are likely to
> get packaged, which I've done before, and which helps with architecture
> testing.  I would prefer not to remove them from the watch file.

OK, feel free to revert my change in Git.
 
> > not know upstream release policy sufficiently enough to decide this
> > myself.  The fact that upstream seemd to have a good contact to the
> > DebiChem packaging team and informs explicitly about beta versions that
> > are worth packaging is IMHO strengthening my suggestion to drop beta
> > from watch file since we will be informed by "other means" about
> > distributable betas.
> 
> I've been working with upstream on platform testing, but no one has ever told
> me "package this version but not that one".
> 
> Is anyone but me using that particular watch file?

Sure!  Besides a lot of bots my use case are the Debian Med tasks pages
where each outdated package gets a flag.  I'm parsing this page
regularly and sometimes I'm just stumbling about gromacs.  I have no
problem with this since I know gromacs is not for me but you can be sure
that it is realised by somebody else than you. :-)

> It's certainly not
> bothering me that in this one-time case, I'm disregarding it.  In a few weeks
> it'll be moot.

Fine for me.  Thanks for the explanation.
 
> > BTW, I would import the said beta version into Git repository and
> > leave you a final view before uploading.  Is this OK for you?
> 
> Again, the version currently in unstable is the only one that should be in the
> repository at the moment.  It's likely to see at least one more bugfix release
> upstream, which will then go to unstable/testing, and later 2018 betas/RCs will
> go to experimental on a different branch.

Please check my other mails as well as the Git repository.

Kind regards

     Andreas. 

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