[Pkg-samba-maint] OpenChange packages: looking for a review and sponsorship

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:05:53PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 17.06.2008, 12:12 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek:

> > > Uploaders: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
> > > Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 5.0.0), libparse-pidl-perl, libmagic-dev,
> > > libdcerpc-dev, libtalloc-dev, libldb-samba4-dev, samba4-dev
> > > Standards-Version: 3.8.0
> > > Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-samba/trunk/openchange

> > ... is it worth me asking for a pkg-samba bzr repo?  I wonder if it really
> > makes sense to push new packages into svn.  What's the upstream VCS for
> > openchange?
> +1! though I don't have much problems with the current setup; bzr
> builddeb + bzr-svn also work fine with it.

One thing I found when trying out bzr-svn was that the log entries visible
from native svn clients seemed to be limited to whatever message was used
when pushing to that branch; so using bzr for offline commits and then
pushing with bzr-svn makes collaboration with svn users harder than just
using svn directly.  Likewise, bzr of course makes it very, very easy to
merge between branches (including bzr-svn branches), but AFAICS it doesn't
make it very easy to find the svn revision ids corresponding to the contents
of a merge - which means that the (horrid, and yet) traditional method of
tracking svn merges, by annotating the merge state via commit messages,

So, with no offense intended to bzr-svn :), it seems clear to me that if any
significant amount of work is going to be done using bzr as the client, and
you have your choice of repository format, using a native bzr repository is
unquestionably better.

I'm interested to hear Christian's opinions on this, as well, since of the
others on the team I think he's most likely to have occasion to commit to
this package.

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