[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#628762: mc: Unable to browse deb archives

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Hi!

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 16:31 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> > SVN is in a very sorry state, it's a total mess, so if you want to
> > re-upload 4.7.0.9 + trivial bugfix patches of your choice in a separate
> > folder I'm totally fine with that, just let me know before hand.
> 
> Sure.  I'd add the patch I submitted to BTS as quilt patch to series.
> Moreover I would like to add the desktop file as mentioned earlier as
> a fix for #616196.

Please just make a separate folder for them, like bugfixes or pending or
whatever.

> As I proposed earlier: I would not spend too much time in fixing SVN but
> rather start from scratch with Git (as far as I know this is what you
> prefered).  Finally the released packages can be reconstructed from
> snapshot.d.o - so why sorting out some historical mess?

The problem of reconstructing the repository I basically got solved some
time ago, it's not the one that is holding me back. The bigger problem
is that there is a lot of in-progress mixed up work in svn which has to
be put in branches, properly reviewed and implemented (or put off until
later, but not completely discarded).

Also the whole package requires a significant overhaul since many, many,
many things have changed in 4.7.5.+ and even more changes are coming.

I don't mind you making an initial import of apt-get source mc, pushing
it to github or Debian git host and building on top of this, since these
patches can be re-applied later on top of the "official" package
repository when it's done.

> So I would do the following
> 
>   * apt-get source mc

+ commit it into bare repository / push somewhere I can have a look.

>   * shamelessly add myself to Uploaders field

Fine with me, I'm not even a DD after all =)

>   * Close bug #616196 and #628762

The patch from this bug is in git @ m-c.o / branch 4.7.0-stable, in what
concerns the desktop file, please have a look here first:

https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/2314

I did some artwork back then, and PLD has a ready-to use desktop file,
but the point really is that this should be carefully reviewed,
integrated in the makefiles and submitted as a patch upstream, so that
all distributions would benefit at once.

As I said I can't do it myself now, but if you prepare a patch I can
solicit a review and try to push it upstream. In the mean time I don't
mind a preliminary version being included into the Debian package.

> * Hope that mc users will be happy about this

Oh well, just remember that the users are hard to please bastards :-)

  * Please post a link to your git thing so that I can have a look
before upload.

Ok, got to go now. Hope it helps.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev