Bug#330824: I dont believe this bug was acted on properly

[Peter Samuelson]

severity 330824 wishlist
retitle 330824 disagreement about example scripts
thanks

[micah]
> "BTW: Maybe you can move the example files to /u/s/d/s-tools/example/"

Thanks so much for not changing the severity there.  I guess you
believe this is release-critical.  I require a bit of convincing on
that score.  I almost tagged this one wontfix just now, but I'll give
you a chance to rebut first.

> This did not happen with any of the example files with 1.2.3dfsg1-1,
> they all still appear in /usr/share/subversion/hook-scripts.

Many of the files there are usable in situ.  Moved to the examples
directory, they wouldn't be (thanks to Policy about gzip).  I'm not
interested in breaking people's repositories arbitrarily, which is what
would happen if people *are* using these things in situ.  If I break
someone's repository with a svn upgrade I want to at least have a good
reason.

Splitting files that could be moved to the examples directory from the
ones that should be left in /usr/share/subversion would be a pointless
exercise in making files harder to find, in order to prove something
about filesystem organization.  To use the script files that come with
"example config" files requires knowing where to find the latter.

> It seems to me that the hot-backup.py script should be restored to
> its original useful place (as a script that some backup programs
> use)

Did you read NEWS.Debian.gz?

  The other script affected is /usr/lib/subversion/hot-backup.py, which
  has now moved into /usr/share/doc/subversion/examples.  It was never
  a supported executable (or it would live in /usr/bin).  It is also no
  longer needed, because "svnadmin hotcopy" now includes the same
  functionality.  Please use "svnadmin hotcopy" instead.

Peter
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