[Pkg-shadow-devel] Policy for patches in the sid branch

Nicolas François nicolas.francois@centraliens.net
Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:07:52 +0200


On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 05:58:11PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > It was the first time I used dpatch, so it is not necessarily _the_ w=
ay to
> > use dpatch.
> > 
> > Here is how I generated the patch:
> 
> Maybe document this in README.patches for all of us dummies../)

I will.
However, I will document it as _a_ way to use dpatch, not as _the_ way.

> > CVS sucks when it comes to renaming a file. The special numbering wil=
l
> > have to be kept post-32.
> 
> Unless we switch to SVN which I'm thinking about for a while. Any
> CVS->SVN wizard around ?

I don't know if the switch to SVN is really needed. But here are some
instructions.

When you have an access to the CVS and SVN repository, it is usually easy:
cvs2svn -s path_to_the_SVN_repository path_to_the_CVS_repository

Otherwise, it is not much more complicated:
cvs2svn --dump-only path_to_the_CVS_repository
This create a cvs2svn-dump file.

You can then replay this dump on the SVN repository:
svnadmin load path_to_the_SVN_repository < cvs2svn-dump


http://svn.debian.org/
indicates that an SVN repository for Alioth can be requested

Then, I don't know if you can log into the box that hosts the CVS and SVN
repositories.
Maybe the dump can be provided inside the request.

If cvs2svn is not present on the CVS host, the dump can be created on
another host if you export the CVS repository in an archive.

> Automated commit notifications would be nice, preferrably in a
> dedicated list. That one already has the BTS junk and I sometimes fear
> that more important messages are lost.
> 
> I can get a new list created easily as project admin. So, if someone
> knows how we could activate automated notifications, (s)he's welcome.

The easiest way it to make as another project (because the tool need to be
supported by alioth).
For example, po4a uses syncmail 1.3.
Then it is just a matter of adding it to CVSROOT and modifying some files.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral