Re: Upgrading fillets-ng [converting it to Git]

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

* Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> [2009-01-15 14:20:27 CET]:
> Normally I would just offer my help for the upgrade. However, the 
> packaging is currently in Subversion and uses debian/-only style. I am 
> lately heading towards Git, and when I use Subversion, I prefer that 
> the upstream source is also in it.
> 
> Anyway, I don't want to light up old discussions. What I want to ask 
> you is, if I go and convert the SVN-based packaging to Git 
> (+pristine-tar), keeping all the history, what is the chance that this 
> will be accepted by the group?

 It would make me stop fiddling around with fillets because at least
with the fillets-data package it's a load that I can't bear on my disk,
sorry. And I am not sure what would be the benefit to convert /only/ the
fillets-ng package but keep the fillets-ng-data package in svn for these
reasons, or vastly different with respect to not include the source and
whatsnot.

 The size considerations are the reason for packages like that to keep
them only with their needed debian/ part in the repository. One doesn't
need (and *should* not) tamper with upstream files directly, so when
having only the debian/ directory in the VCS it explicitly enforces that
behavior.

> Best wishes,
>     dam
>     kobodeluxe uploader

 Thanks for that fine piece, btw. :)  And I hope you don't get this as a
personal or harsh statement, but fiddling around with fillets-ng-data is
already a pain given its size and I do not want to have to carry around
an external harddrive just to be able to do the work.

 So long. :)
Rhonda