is using git a hard requirement for debian-science packages? (was: Re: Request to Join Project Debian Science)

[Joost van Baal]

Hi,

Op Mon  6 Dec 2010 om 09:44:59 +0100 schreef Sylvestre Ledru:
> Le lundi 06 décembre 2010 à 20:48 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit :
> > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 07:32:26PM +0000, noreply at alioth.debian.org wrote:
> > > Joost van Baal has requested to join your project.
> > 
> > Welcome to Debian Science!

Lionel: thank you :)

> > Joost van Baal wrote:
> > > I'd like to use the Debian Science Alioth project for maintenance
> > > of some linguistics software:

> > > Bug#605905: ITP: frog -- tagger and parser for Dutch language
> > > Bug#605913: ITP: timbl -- Tilburg Memory Based Learner
> > > Bug#605919: ITP: mbt -- memory-based tagger-generator and tagger
> > >                   for natural language processing
> > > Bug#605928: ITP: timblserver -- Server extensions for TiMBL

> > > Upstream expressed willingness to help with Debian packaging work;
> > > a -guest account will be requested soonish.  Upstream would
> > > very much prefer to use SVN, not git.  Would it be acceptable
> > > to use SVN for new packages in debian-science?  (Policy seems to
> > > indicate otherwise.)

Sylvestre wrote:
>
> To me, the best VCS is the one you are the most familiar with!

http://debian-science.alioth.debian.org/debian-science-policy.html says "The
Debian Science Project has agreed to use Git as their preferred Version Control
System (VCS)."  What does this mean exactly?  How do Debian Science Maintainers
feel about it?

Imho it's good for the Debian Science project to include the four packages
I'll maintain.  Furthermore, there currently are packages in debian-science
being maintained using SVN.  My upstream uses SVN daily, and never uses git.

So: Should these four packages get imported in debian-science SVN?

Thanks, Bye,

Joost

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