[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Remove or move old packages in SVN?

Christophe Prud'homme prudhomm at debian.org
Mon May 12 15:57:28 UTC 2008


Daniel,

thanks for your _very_ helpful work and your suggestions below !

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Daniel Leidert
<daniel.leidert.spam at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Some packages in the SVN are not maintained anymore or are obsoleted.
>  Two examples are gnudatalangauge (maintained outside) and ufsparse.
ufsparse is indeed obsolete, should be removed
if gnudatalanguage is not maintained, let's remove it

>
>  Could these be moved into an own directory (e.g. oldpkgs or oldlibs or
>  similar) or be removed from the SVN? I just would like to have a better
>  organizing of these 2.5GB repository. It would make it easier to check,
>  which packages really need maintenance. I normally would suggest a
>  top-level structure of
I never realized it was that bad because I always retrieved package by
package and never the full repo.
now with your email I realize that some reorganisation is indeed needed !

>  - old (only stable/oldstable)
>  - packages (in Debian)
>  - wnpp (not yet in Debian/ITP)
agreed, good idea

>  and maybe (see my other mail some days ago)
I saw it on debian-science but didn't have time to  answer

>  - tags/{package1,package2,....}
I agree with that but I guess we have to customize svn-buildpackage
for the -svn-tag to work, no ?

>  I'm just helping in this packaging group, but maybe you agree to my
>  thoughts. Please feel free to comment and/or object.
that's a big help you provide and thank you for your suggestions.
I believe that they are sound and should not take too much time to implement
I think also that this is the "right" categorisation (at least for
now) : I would not go, for example, in the direction
of  categories/layout like pde, algebra, graph visualisation, ...

Best regards
C.



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