From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-helpers: point at their upstream repositories Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 00:24:11 -0500 Message-ID: <5376f27b74d9f_66768eb3048f@nysa.notmuch> References: <20140516084126.GB21468@sigill.intra.peff.net> <537693aee4fdd_3e4812032fcc@nysa.notmuch> <20140517021117.GA29866@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: James Denholm , Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 17 07:35:49 2014 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 1WlXHg-0001tL-BQ for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2014 07:35:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756320AbaEQFfR (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2014 01:35:17 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.219.42]:65023 "EHLO mail-oa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755145AbaEQFfP (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2014 01:35:15 -0400 Received: by mail-oa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id j17so4022489oag.15 for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 22:35:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:message-id:in-reply-to:references:subject :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Hq4na4nUWwSCVc+xfFKaHFxNY+8q5/8AZJk6UbuuGNg=; b=Ac8iCtAa3ueQpAqTBm6bLdQ5mPHjvaKbtDkb5YayYceixjxnay0KJPnk6f35wzojvl TZH1t9068Kn2dzXAWDC9p/9PQ6SvewTrHmAC5rwq25A8VrHmEa673grPYa3NM4SdDeVL 3ns04FrUZZGbQqVOkh9Y9R1EGJDA6NHCChth8qhtPykt2yrfQ4MyK72pmVlHiBqX+2EX lGNnZEMPMpaG0sAnDitb8Ec80m62ytRY5YD5W/4DmWIMHmKL4v5JS26BVQqMTJA4Nnbl G+H2SINoDP8lIB9PBhKLKRX9Gm90Y7kYEa40kIu+w6MnYTwUK+9FYJDeW9+Cs8/rb1ma RDCw== X-Received: by 10.60.16.103 with SMTP id f7mr21809906oed.8.1400304915200; Fri, 16 May 2014 22:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (189-211-224-40.static.axtel.net. [189.211.224.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id cu7sm12131621oec.12.2014.05.16.22.35.13 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 16 May 2014 22:35:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140517021117.GA29866@debian> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: James Denholm wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 05:39:42PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > (...) I would venture to say you have never made a package in your > > life. > > And you have, Felipe? Let us see the years of experience you surely have > in the field. As a matter of fact, yes I've written many packages, for Debian, Fedora, ArchLinux, and others. Even Windows installers. But that's a red herring. Even if was the worst packager in history, that doesn't make Junio's decision any more correct. > > The fact that you think packagers of git would simply package > > git-remote-hg/bzr as well is pretty appalling. > > It's not an outlandish thought, in fact, I'd suggest it as probable - > provided that they find the projects to be stable and of high quality. Do you want to bet? > You, or someone else, might have to tap them on the shoulder and play > nice to _ensure_ they know about them (after all, we all know that > packagers _never_ read READMEs, do they), but you're capable of that, > I'm sure. In my experience packagers scratch their own itches, and if git-remote-hg/bzr are not their itch, I don't see why any amount of nice poking would make them package them. Some other packager would have to do it, not the Git packagers. -- Felipe Contreras