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

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:36:05PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:20:39PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > 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. ;)

It's the first project for which I'm using this tool. AFAIK quite non
intrusive. But if you have any other preferences about how to manage
Debian packages in a VCS, then open for sugestions. 

> 
> > 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. :'(

Yes, Jens died in a tragical accident :-(. He was the former mol
maintainer. Jens was not the MOL's upstream, though. This is Samuel Rydh.
AFAIK he's not really dead, just no longer working on MOL. At least it
seams like this. There was no formal announcement or something such.

> 
> > 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 think we should keep all mol related packages in the same repository.
I did not comit the original upstream tarball. Do you think we should
have it in SVN too (just to keep it around in case josejx deletes it
from his page)?

> 
> > 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.

Same goes for me. I didn't really inform the list of my plans to work on
mol packaging. I just briefly talked to otavio on IRC, but this is also
several months ago (when he added me to the alioth project). As nothing
was happening for several months I thought that nobody is interested in
mol packaging. 

AFAIK Sven and Otavio are not really interested in maintaining mol. Sven
said so explicitly several times (AFAIR on debian-powerpc). He only did 
one upload because it was blocking some kernel transition. Otavio AFAIK 
no longer owns a Mac and is therefore no longer able to help out. I 
don't know anything about the other people in the alioth project or 
listening on the mailinglist.

gaudenz

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Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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