From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs. Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 05:59:19 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20130102105919.GA14391@thyrsus.com> References: <20130101172645.GA5506@thyrsus.com> <7vfw2k8t7k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130102003344.GA9651@thyrsus.com> <20130102080247.GA20002@elie.Belkin> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 02 12:00:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TqM3e-0000tW-BE for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:00:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752641Ab3ABLAF (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 06:00:05 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:34238 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752111Ab3ABLAE (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2013 06:00:04 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 266B74415C; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 05:59:19 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130102080247.GA20002@elie.Belkin> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond