On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Charles Plessy wrote: > If in a large number of cases where one would like to turn off the patch > system > of the 3.0 (quilt) format, the source package is stored in a Git repository, > then one way to move forward would be to make the format 3.0 (git) available > in Debian. What are the blocking points ?
AFAIK, the _real_ problem is that the ftpmasters do not consiter it acceptable to packages to ship their entire history, and that's a fatal problem that has no simple solution. Shipping the whole history means you have to check the entire history for DFSG compliance. There's also the nasty detail that you have to destroy history past any point where an undistributable blob exists to make the whole thing distributable. Another problem is that you either face an unbounded increase in size over time, or you have to ship git shallow clones, which are not self-contained and very nasty to work with. I don't think we will have 3.0 (git) in Debian anytime soon, if ever. Corrections by any of the ftpmasters if I got any of this wrong, are very welcome. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110925024542.ga32...@khazad-dum.debian.net
