e-tobi.net vs. alioth debs

[Nicolas Huillard]

Tobias Grimm a =E9crit :
> The packages at http://www.e-tobi.net/vdr and=20
> http://www.e-tobi.net/vdrdevel/ are mainly based on the=20
> ctvdr-distribution (A VDR distribution by the German computer magazine=20
> c't), which is an extension to the official Debian-packages. My=20
> repository is some kind of a "front line". Normally new package version=
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> are released in my repository first. All ctvdr-developers are also=20
> members of the Debian VDR Packaging Group, so we are all working=20
> together, not in parallel. From time to time a package from my=20
> repository will be moved to Alioth (and vice versa). But this is not=20
> possible for all packages, because of the DFSG. Another "special" in my=
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> repository are the vdrdevel packages maintained by Thomas G=FCnther.=20
> vdrdevel and its plugins can be installed in parallel to the stable vdr=
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> 1.2.6 and you can easily switch between vdr 1.2.6  and the 1.3.x=20
> development version. But within the next weeks, we will upgrade our=20
> 1.2.6 repository to 1.3.x.

Thanks for this good explaination !

Is there a public CVS/SVN repository for the packages that are not on=20
alioth ?
Since vdrdevel is not on alioth, how can I contribute to those (if=20
possible or needed) ?
What process creates the packages on your repository : is there an=20
automatic build, or is it more manual, thus slower when tracking=20
upstream versions ?

> The repository structure may look strange, but this is mostly because w=
e=20
> provide different patch versions of vdr and because we have our own=20
> release cycle from experimental to testing to stable.

Since I want to track vdr 1.3.23+ (I already have this version), with a=20
directory naming =E0-la vdr (not vdrdevel, since I tracked Darren Salt's=20
repository), should I use vdrdevel (and copy many conf files from where=20
they currently are) or wait for sarge/experimental to switch to 1.3.x ?
What decision or even trigger sarge/experimental switch to 1.3.x ?

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