[Pkg-electronics-devel] Moving project like fpga-icestorm to Debian Electronics

[Ruben Undheim]

Hi Andreas,

> currently there exist two reporitories for fpga-icestorm
> 
>    https://salsa.debian.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=+fpga-icestorm&group_id=&project_id=&repository_ref=
> 
> While the official packaging points to Debian Electronics
> 
>    $ apt-cache showsrc  fpga-icestorm | grep ^Vcs | sort | uniq
>    Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/fpga-icestorm
>    Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/fpga-icestorm.git
> 
> The repository there just has a single commit:
> 
>     Just test commit to Debian Electronics fpga-icestorm project
>     Ruben Undheim authored 1 month ago
 
In fact, you are looking at the branch "test-drive". The branches "master",
"upstream" and "pristine-tar" are all there - and have a big number of commits
;) But at the time of pushing them, I did not have the permission neither to
delete a branch, nor to change the default branch for a repository :( However,
I got that permission a few weeks ago (when I became a DD), so now I can
actually do it. :) Thanks for reminding me!

The version in Debian Science is outdated, and should be deleted. Since you
are asking, and you have the permission to do so, please go ahead. :)

> I think you should consequently move repositories from Debian Science to
> Debian Electronics if the Vcs fields are pointing there.


> This is possibly true for other packages than fpga-icestorm.

This is not true for any package I am maintaining, at least. I was actually
waiting until I had moved more packages to Debian Electronics before wasting
someones time by asking to delete the packages from Debian Science.

Thank you. :)

Best regards
Ruben