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

[Ondrej Certik]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Christophe Prud'homme
<prudhomm at debian.org> wrote:
> 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 suggest to use the default way of dealing with packages using
svn-buildpackage, so that new people can easily learn it.

I.e. doing things the same way as others, for example the Debian
Python Modules Team, or any other team that uses svn.

Ondrej