Re: Subversion Debian packages?

[Karl Fogel <kf...@newton.ch.collab.net>]

I think it's fine to include in an unstable dist.  That's why they
call it "unstable" :-).

Others?

-K

David Kimdon <dw...@debian.org> writes:
> I got a mail this morning expressing some concern that including
> Subversion in Debian is not a good thing because Subversion is not
> finished.  I understand that we must be careful with first
> impressions.   I personally think the inclusion in Debian today will
> only help Subversion, but I'd like to hear the opinion of this list.
> 
> Some points to consider:
> 
> - Subversion has absolutely no chance of getting into the soon to be
>   released Debian 'woody'.  Subversion has a chance to get into the next
>   Debian release which, if the past is any indicator, will happen
>   summer 2004.
> 
> - The Subversion package description starts out :
>   "This is a development pre-alpha release of Subversion.  Don't use it 
>   on a real project.  You risk losing all your data."
> 
> - Inclusion of Subverion in Debian at this time allows for any
>   portability problems on Linux alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, m68k, mips,
>   mipesel, powerpc, s390, sh, and sparc or hurd-i386 to be addressed
>   now rather than later.  The Debian build daemons will continuously
>   attempt to build Subversion and at present I even run the testsuite
>   as part of the build process. (to date all builds have failed but it
>   isn't Subversion's fault [1])
> 
>   
> - In general those who run Debian unstable are not going to write off
>   a piece of software at the first sign of a bug but will instead file
>   a bug which may even include a patch that fixes the issue.
> 
> Thanks for your input,
> 
> David
>   
> [1] : http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=subversion
> 
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Re: Subversion Debian packages?

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 11:23:06AM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> I think it's fine to include in an unstable dist.  That's why they
> call it "unstable" :-).

i don't see any problem with putting it in debian, i mean we've had
packages for redhat forever (although i don't knwo if anyone
distributes them), and freebsd's had a port for a long time as well.

you might want to put some kind of warning on it to let people know
that it's not for production use yet, but other than that i don't see
any issue with putting it in debian.

-garrett 

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