from "Constantine A. Murenin" <[email protected]>: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 12:20, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 02:30:48PM +1000, Paul Ripke wrote: > > > I switched away from cvsup a while back, but I now see that github > > > NetBSD/src mirror is now 5 days old. Known issue? > > Yes, I believe joerg and spz are changing the conversion from > > cvs->??->git to hg->git, to match what will be done once we stop using > CVS. > What's wrong with "??"? I think it's pretty well-known that Fossil has > been the intermediary repository in NetBSD's conversion from CVS to Git > since 2011, and it would seem that https://src.fossil.netbsd.org/ is still > up-to-date, FWIIW, whereas GitHub's src is 7 days behind. > I thought the plan to move to HG hasn't been finalised yet, am I missing > something? Plus, why HG and not Fossil, if the end-result consumption is > via Git anyways? I was going to send this message even if not in response to Constantin Murenin's message. I was led to Mercurial website (www.mercurial-scm.org) when reading about plans for Toybox, which is like a lesser BusyBox. Mercurial has a problem which may be resolved in a future release, if it hasn't already: dependency on the deprecated Python 2.7. So I don't think NetBSD should rush the switch to hg until hg is ready to build with Python >= 3.6. There is no more upstream support for Python 2.x or 2.7, meaning any security vulnerabilities will not be fixed. Tom
