Sven Rudolph writes: > Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > great. since i meet other debian developers at the linux congress, i my > > a big friend of a cvs server with all debian packages. does anyone have > > a server with enough hard disks and a good conection to run it ? > > Some problems arise: > > Should this CVS repository be mandatory, i.e. does every Debian > package have to be there? > > How much disk space will this take ?
Don't seriously bother about disk space. Debian has a fond of money from which additional disks could be paid. But a problem that I see is that it would be good if we could have _some_ mirrored cvs archives, i.e. there are a lot of european maintainer and it does make sense if we have a master cvs server cvs.debian.org and a europe/ german secondary. I don't know if and how we could arrange that uploads reach the master, too. > > also it would > > help to coordinate updates (think of the menu package - this way we > > could have send diffs direct to the maintainer). > > My favourite example ;-) And everyone would be able to get an older version than the actual, too. My favourite example: just after setting up an exchange system for my server a friend of mine encountered that the new uucp package was unusable, if I had installed it, the result would be horrorous (sp?). > So I'll repeat this: IMHO Currently the overhead of fixing a bug and > publishing the fixed version is too high. For unstable it would be > enough to check-in the fix (e.g. an added menu file, a spelling-fix). > > Please note that the procedure for stable might be different. Hmm, where is the change? You still have to publish the fixed version, haven't you? Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / This copy of Netscape has expired. -- Netscape / / Ein weiterer Grund Mosaic zu benutzen. :-( / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .