[pkg-nvidia-devel] Repository cleanup

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Mon Apr 26 02:23:49 UTC 2010


Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> The now obsolete source packages nvidia-graphics-modules-i386 and
> nvidia-graphics-modules-amd64 should get a final new changelog entry
> (eventually with distribution set to OBSOLETE):

> * This source package has been obsoleted by nvidia-graphics-modules, see
>   http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nvidia/packages/nvidia-graphics-modules
>   svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-nvidia/packages/nvidia-graphics-modules

> Alternatively, the trunk/ directories could be deleted. The last
> released versions will remain under tags/

Just deleting trunk seems reasonable to me, since everything is tagged and
still there, and nvidia-graphics-modules is a copy of the last line of
development.

> nvidia-graphics-drivers/branches/upstream contains an empty hierarchy
> created by svn-inject which is not neccessary since mergewithupstream
> method is used, so remove upstream and everything beyond.

Also just not generally useful for us given that the upstream "source" is
just a tarball of a couple of download packages.

> nvidia-graphics-drivers/branches/beta/ is a branch from 2006 (96xx time)
> and I suggest to remove it without further looking at it.

Sounds good.

What would people think of switching the repository to Git?

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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