[Pkg-x2go-devel] Fwd: Re: Bug#609806: nxproxy prepared for build on Alioth

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 15:32:44 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> On 11-06-07 at 03:05pm, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:37:48 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> 
>> > On 11-06-01 at 06:07pm, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>> >> whenever you have time, may you please take a look at the NX 
>> >> packages I have placed on Alioth. With the mail below we have a go 
>> >> from the original package maintainer to co-maintain those packages.
>> >
>> > Sorry for the delay - not holiday, but swamped with work :-/
>> >
>> > It seems the gits lack pristine-tar branch.  I strongly favor 
>> > preserving as much history as possible, especially since we juggle 
>> > across multiple package maintainers and potentially multiple 
>> > upstreams as well.
>> >
>> 
>> I have to admit that I'm surprised that you've decided to reimport 
>> Stephane's (final) package instead of updating the branches from 
>> i4git.informatik.uni-erlangen.de. Those branches match the workflow as 
>> proposed by git-buildpackage and contain at least some history.
>
> What I miss is the history of previous Debian packaging, including 
> pristine-tar metadata for tarballs previously released into Debian.
>
> Also, I would prefer to not clutter the main Debian branches with 
> Ubuntu-specific history.
>
> Sorry if we've already discussed this - what is the benefits of using 
> those gits of yours, Reinhard?

Well, they do have pristine-tar branches, but it seems that the import
didn't succeed for many revisions. But if interested, old pristine-tar
data can be imported at some later point.

The main advantage is that the branches on code.x2go.org are derived
from these branches, so updating them by merging remains possible.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4