[Pkg-octave-devel] svn buildup

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug at gmail.com> [2007-11-28 23:58]:

> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:54:20PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > Why the specific version number?  I think that may confuse people by
> > leading them to believe that it is only intended for a specific
> > version of Octave or that it is just a specific version of the Octave
> > Forge packages.  Maybe it would be better to just use the name
> > octave-forge-pkgs?
> 
> An even better suggestion, thanks John.

Yes, it is.

> As for this subdirectory idea, will that work for the guidelines from
> http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org/DOG-Guidelines.html ???
> 
> There it says that trunks and tags should be of the form
> svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-octave/<package>/tags/<version>/
> but with the subdirs then it will be
> svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-octave/octave-forge-pkgs/<package>/tags/<version>/
> right?

Go ahead with the sub-directory implementation and I will adjust the
Guidelines document later.  Guidelines or Policies should follow the common
practices, not the other way around.

-- 
Rafael