On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
This idea cames up on a regular basis. I think that the consensus is that it's better to simply use the Debian archive as VCS. When you change/fix something in an orphaned package, just upload ;)
Well, OK, this might make some sense if you just not intend to care more for a package than a single upload. On the other hand there is collab-maint/orphaned - so people seem to seek for a pragmatic solution.
Making the process of doing QA uploads more complex, by asking care-takers to look at a VCS first, is IMHO not a good thing.
I trust your experience. The precondition for keeping a package in VCS is that debian/control contains the relevant fields - if not nobody will ever know where to look.
Of course, when a package has been adopted, and there's no obvious team to maintain it, the best solution is probably to use collab-maint to maintain it. You didn't know about collab-maint? Maybe we need to communicate a bit more about this.
Definitely! I admit I do not very well in keeping track of all the nice tools that are developed by fellow DDs and perhaps I do not read announcements carefully enough (or just do not understand every consequence of an announcemant for my daily or future work). There is just no chance to cope with all this stuff in my day-to-day work. But I strongly assume that this is true for the waste majority of DDs and we should increase the communication channels. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]