On 2016-12-26 18:55:31, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> All,
>
> I recently saw that php5, squid, and squid3 have LTS-specific
> repositories on git.debian.org. Since imagemagick appears to have a
> large volume of issues for the LTS team to address and at least once we
> have had to effect a hand-off part way through preparation of an upload,
> I have gone ahead and created a collab-maint repository for imagemagick
> LTS work.
>
> The repository can be cloned here:
>
> ssh://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/debian-lts/imagemagick.git
>
> It uses the standard master/upstream/pristine-tar branch layout, so it
> should work with the normal gbp commands (e.g., gbp buildpackage)
> without any special configuration.
>
> I grabbed all the deb7u? versions from the archive and from
> snapshot.debian.org and then used 'gbp import-dscs' to give us some
> semblance of history at least for all the wheezy security updates.
>
> This should help make the imagemagick updates a bit smoother, I think.
Hmm... imagemagick is *already* in collab-maint. The whole purpose of
this repository is to allow for... well... collaborative maintenance. :)
Why create a separate repository?
Shouldn't we reuse the wheezy branch instead?
A.
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