From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 05:59:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130102105919.GA14391@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130102080247.GA20002@elie.Belkin>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> Speaking with my Debian packager hat on: the updated cvsps is not
> available in Debian. "git cvsimport" is, and it has users that report
> bugs from time to time. With this change, I would either have to take
> on responsibility for maintenance of the cvsps package (not going to
> happen) or drop "git cvsimport". That's a serious regression.
How does going from "it silently damages imports" to "it fails with
an error message" constitute a regression?
> The moment someone takes care of packaging the updated cvsps, I'll
> stop minding, though. ;-)
I'll ping the Debian QA group.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-02 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-01 17:26 [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-01 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-02 0:33 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-02 1:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-02 8:02 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-02 10:59 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2013-01-02 15:39 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-02 16:18 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-02 16:32 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-01-02 16:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-02 16:48 ` Thomas Berg
2013-01-02 21:15 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-01-02 22:28 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-02 23:44 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-01-02 16:35 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-02 16:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-01-02 18:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-02 18:37 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-01-02 19:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-03 6:34 ` Chris Rorvick
2013-01-03 7:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-03 7:47 ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-01-03 15:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-03 16:24 ` Michael Haggerty
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