Am 14.02.2013 21:54, schrieb Thomas Kluyver: > On 14 February 2013 20:29, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I look at the switch to dh_python2 as an example. > > > I don't think it's a particularly good example, though. Lots of packages > continue to use the older helpers, and not due to a lack of time - attempts > to move away from the deprecated helpers still seem to meet considerable > resistance.
this is your interpretation. pycentral is deprecated for a long time [1]. There are reasons to limit ourself to exactly one third-party directory [2], so maybe that should be the broader goal for jessie. > That causes problems when newcomers don't want to learn > deprecated packaging methods, and aren't allowed to update packages to use > the recommended helper. Agreed, so why not helping with it? Again, why not helping here? > Back on the VCS question, I fear that the 'all or nothing' road will circle > back to 'nothing' for a long time. I think that we should allow some > packages to live in git without forcing a complete migration, so individual > maintainers can use the VCS they're more comfortable with. Most open source > programmers have at least a basic familiarity with both, so it shouldn't be > such an obstacle to working on other packages. > > We wouldn't be the only team doing this - Debian Games Team, for example, > use both git and svn for packaging: > http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS Now you did point out one discrepancy, which hinders newcomers, and you do want to introduce another one? Matthias [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=pycentral-deprecation;[email protected] [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/02/msg00109.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
