[Pkg-ganeti-devel] I'll start on converting the repos to git

[Iustin Pop]

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 05:06:52PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 12:25:46PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote:
> > Sorry, I missed the fact that the “/git/pkg-ganeti” directory has
> > already been created; I'll start converting the repo from svn to git, so
> > please refrain from comitting to svn.
> 
> As you've seen from the commit emails, I've finished the transition.
> 
> Unfortunately this didn't go very well. It seems you can't easily
> convert svn-buildpackage to git-buildpackage *and* be able to build old
> versions easily. So this means:
>   - old version are available as tags, but only the debian/ directory,
> 	and you need to build manually the package, and not via
> 	git-buildpackage; if you want to be sure you replicate an old build,
> 	checking out subversion is better;
>   - some tags which were redone in SVN were lost (e.g. ganeti-1.2~b3-1)
>   - due to how I've imported the upstream sources, neither repository is
> 	actually ready; I have to import a new upstream version and then
> 	only it's a fully-functional, valid, git-buildpackage-enabled repo
> 
> Especially due to the last point, I'll do a ganeti 1.2.7 import and
> instance-debootstrap 0.7, but probably not today.

OK, I've done the imports, and now the repositories are usable. Time to start
fixing the lintian stuff :)

iustin