[Pkg-octave-devel] Moving to git-buildpackage for octave

[Sébastien Villemot]

Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> writes:

> does anyone still have patches that are not yet pushed into the octave
> git repository? I would like to change it to git-buildpackage layout,
> with just the 3.2.4 sources (which suits fine, as stable has 3.2.4 as
> well).
>
> Oh, and if you are against that change, please say so as well.

Please go ahead!

Personally I prefer to stick to git rather than move to mercurial. One
reason is that I don't know hg :) A more relevant reason is that all our
other packages are maintained in git.

I don't really see what is the value added in having the same DVCS
between upstream and Debian, since in practice the two repositories do
not share any history (the Debian repository only stores the upstream
tarballs, not the whole upstream history).

But, well, if you prefer to move to hg, I’ll adapt.

Best,

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics at CEPREMAP & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
Phone: +33-1-40-77-49-90 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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