[Pkg-samba-maint] r2577 - in trunk/samba/debian: . patches

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 07:31:04AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I have lost track, I'm afraid. The problems may arise from /me doing
> things wrong when trying to update the trunk with stuff from the
> experimental branch.

> About your comment: I understand that SVN is possibly making it more
> and more difficult.

> I'm not entirely opposed to switch to git.....however, I'm just
> beginning to start understanding the way we should be working with SVN
> and that asks me to re-learn everything..:-)

Well, I specifically didn't suggest moving away from svn over this issue
because I don't have any particular desire to move to git and I knew that
would be a point of discussion.  git would solve this particular problem,
but I find git aggravating for other reasons and have thus far managed to
avoid having to work with it on any of my packages; I certainly wouldn't be
in a position to drive such a migration or author any documentation for it.

And while being able to migrate to git would make it easier to pick patches
from upstream, at the same time it implies making it harder for Ubuntu as a
downstream to interface with the repo.  Bzr remains the VCS of choice
there, and while thanks to Jelmer we have very good support in bzr for
talking to svn repos, my understanding is that bidirectional support for
talking to git repos is very much a work in progress.

> Given the development model used by upstream....and my own will to
> provide backports and the better felxibility for our users, we'll end
> up with quite many branches and I hope I wouldn't get lost in them...

FWIW, branch management would also be easier with bzr, and that would be a
transition we could ease into without any need to migrate the actual
repository.  Indeed, I've already used bzr-svn for talking to the samba
repository, I've just been reluctant to use it for branch management because
bzr and svn don't get to share much of the metadata, so this would put other
members of the team who aren't using bzr-svn at a disadvantage.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org