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[Eddy Petrişor]

> > > But I don't think it's useful to keep all packages in SVN, that's way too much
> > > overhead.
> >
> > I think that's not consistent.  Imagine the following:  I change the
> > maintainer of my packages to pkg-games-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org,
> > but leave them at my private computer at home.  Then I leave for
> > holidays.  You get bug reports, and you could to something, but it would
> > be easier, if everything would be on one place, wouldn't it?
>
>   I can see your point there.
>
>   Still 'apt-get source foo' would get the current sources if I'd
>  really gone on holiday and had nothing pending on my local copy.

Here you are talking about wrong usage of version managemnt systems.
It is not a software flaw, but a human one. Having averything online
makes a lot of sense. Also patching and collaborative maintainace is
_all_ about shared (authenticated) repositories.

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Regards,
EddyP
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