[Pkg-samba-maint] (forw) ANNOUNCE: cifs-utils-4.0rc1 released

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> I have to say that at this point, I find the use of subversion unbearable.
> When we first started importing samba upstream tarballs into svn, this was
> tolerable because upstream was not using a DVCS.  Now they are, and our
> manual tarball imports are just busywork.  For samba we have to put up with
> this (for now!) because we have a lot of package history that we care about
> preserving, but we shouldn't repeat this dinosaur layout for a new package
> like cifs-utils.
> 
> You may know that I'm no fan of git, but while I would prefer bzr for this I
> would be willing to put up with git if that's what it would take to avoid
> perpetuating this svn setup.  In contrast, if this does end up being
> maintained in svn I'm afraid I will have to ask that I not be listed as a
> comaintainer, because I won't be contributing to it in that form.
> 
> Please let me know your thoughts on how you think we should proceed.


I don't have hard opinions on this.

I did import the source just as we do for other packages
because.....this is what I currently am able to do: I know the
process, I am used to it and it works for me....and I don't think I
need much more.

OTOH, I understand that people like you (understand those who are not
plain morons when it comes at understanding code....and those who
actually *do* work that benefits from DVCS) may prefer working with a
more versatile tool.

I'm perfectly OK to avoid perpetuating the SVN setup and work another
way as long as this another way is know to me and a little bit more
than "we should work with git|bzr|whatever". This is certainyly saying
something like "Please setup and document the whole thing, Steve, and
I'll be delighted to use it"..:-)

As of now, I can still continue to work in SVN for the cifs-utils
package preparation work (create debian/rules and other debian/*,
crossing fingers for the package buildprocess to be dh7-friendly,
etc.) while preparation of the needed git setup is being done..:)


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