[Pkg-mol-devel] SVN repository messed up?

[Aurélien GÉRÔME]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:20:39PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Glad to meet you, I did not expect anyone to pay attention to the
> pkg-mol SVN these days...

I am glad you answer, I was starting to worry seeing the commit logs
coming to pkg-mol-commits... Well, you did not know of course, but
I was planning to clean it up tomorrow. :)

> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 06:59:58PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> > As you do not answer on IRC, may you tell us what you did with the
> > SVN repository and where is MOL's upstream source code?
> 
> As the repository is mainly intended for maintaining the packaging of
> the Debian mol packages, I converted it to the mergeWithUpstream scheme
> of svn-buildpackage today. I think it is better to only manage the
> debian directory in SVN and not the whole upstream source. If you have
> further questions on how this works, feel free to ask further questions
> or the refer to the svn-buildpackage HOWTO. You should be able to use
> all the svn-buildpackage tools like before.

OK, I will look into that. I usually dislike having tools such as
<foo>-buildpackage forced upon me, but I am willing to deal with it,
since it works fine for you I presume. ;)

> The latest upstream source can be found at
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/. MOL's upstream is quite dead since some
> time and this is a semi-fork done by Gentoo developer Joseph Jezak.

Jens is really dead AFAIK, this is a terrible loss. :'(

> The upstream tarball contains some bits not suitable for main (code
> which can only be built using proprietary compilers on MacOS, you should
> be familiar with this from miBoot :-) ). To factor out these bits I
> wrote a small script. It's in the scripts directory in SVN.

Ah... Great! I was surprised/upset when I saw mol-drivers-macosx
going into the SVN repository. I am reassured now. ;)

> I now also imported the upstream tarballs into SVN and commited my
> latest work. If you are interested in helping out with maintaining mol I
> would be glad to have you as comaintainer! There is a lot of work to be
> done to bring mol back into shape.

Yes, that was my intention from the start. Otavio and Sven already
knew my plans, since I got the necessary access to admin the project,
but I failed to inform you which I apologise for.

Cheers,
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