[Pkg-alsa-devel] Re: I broke it again!

[Steve Kowalik]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:00:48 +0200, Jordi Mallach uttered
> Last night Thomas and I couldn't stop moaning how overengineered all of
> this process of importing all the sources is.
> 
Agreed.

> After all, we're using dpatch, right? All our changes should be in the
> debian directory, so is there a reason we want all the upstream sources
> in CVS, if we're not going to touch them?
> 
Hrm. It seems not.

> For my Debian packages managed in SVN (quite a few: all of GNOME,
> mailutils, freeciv, etc), we just have the debian/ dir in SVN.
> svn-buildpackage then merges what is in SVN with what it gets after
> unpacking the orig.tar.gz. If there's a way of doing this in
> cvs-buildpackage, that would be so much easier for me... because I don't
> think SVN is an option, is it? :)
> 
Tell you what, you implement debian/ in SVN for
alsa-{driver,oss,utils,lib}, and I'll use it. If I see that SVN
doesn't suck after a couple of days, I may re-evaluate my opinion of
it.

Now hurry up, before I change my mind. ;-)

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					Steve
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