package subversion retitle 306470 subversion: consider shipping tools from contrib merge 306470 327781 thanks dude
[Sylvain Joyeux] > The client-side/ directory in the subversion source contains very > useful scripts (svnmerge for instance). Could you include them in the > subversion package ? There's a bunch of stuff in there, and it's not clear to me how much of it is useful and how much is unsupportably buggy or useless. As one simple example, at least one or two of the scripts in there have security holes related to temporary files. Debian users have come to expect a certain quality of implementation and I hate to ship something that isn't going to measure up. There's also the issue that once you start shipping some binary, if you ever change your mind, it's hard to stop shipping it because some user somewhere will be depending on it. Perhaps the best solution is to ship a new package subversion-extras or subversion-tools-extra or something, and make it clear in the description that the contents of this package are unsupported upstream and thus it's hard to guarantee quality. > This is an extension to #306470. I did not know if it was better to > file a new bug or to send a comment to that one. I consider it the same request. But no harm done, I'm merging the reports. Thanks, Peter
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