Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 24 décembre 2008 à 00:48 +0100, Ondrej Certik a écrit : > Imho if we are going to only version the debian dir, then I also don't > see such a strong argument for git (or other distributed vcs). Since > it will still need to fiddle with upstream tarball and also with > debian/patches + q

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-24 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette writes: > TTBOMK no other VCS is as smooth to operate as subversion *for > Debian packages*. Only svn-buildpackage can handle correctly the > versioning of the debian/ directory alone. What mis-handlings of a separate ‘debian/’ directory do you know of in the other ‘$VCS-buildpa

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-24 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Precisely. TTBOMK no other VCS is as smooth to operate as subversion > *for Debian packages*. Only svn-buildpackage can handle correctly the > versioning of the debian/ directory alone. bzr bd works fine in this mode; did you try it out? -- Loïc M

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-24 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 00:48, Ondrej Certik wrote: > thanks for the points, I reacted to some. so please accept my reply :) > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >>> P.S. bzed, POX, isn't it time to move our packaging to git? >> >> I'm none of them, but I'll speak anyway :) Bux

Re: numpy 1.2.1, switching to git?

2008-12-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:26:29PM +0100, Carlos wrote: > Well, maybe we should distinguish between newcomers to the team and > newcomers to VCS. A newcomer to the team could master one VCS, two or > none of them, so it's impossible to know his (or her) preferences in > advance. For a newcomer to