Swithched emboss from svn-buildpackage to git.

[Charles Plessy-12]

Dear all,

as discussed earlier, I am moving the emboss source package from Subversion to
Git. People who check out the whole Subversion repository will be pleased
to read that it will remove more than 300 Mb of files, mostly the manpages
that are specific from Debian and therefore duplicated for each Svn tag.

On the other hand, ‘debcheckout -a emboss’ will now consume 120 Mb instead of
5. This corresponds to the size of the unpacked EMBOSS sources plus a 20 Mb
overhead for the history on three upstream releases and the whole /debian
directory, which I imported in the new git repository. Only these 20 Mb
will actually be transferred over the network, the rest is unpacked locally.

I do not intend to do much more conversions for the moment: most other
packages are not as space-hungry as emboss was.

Here is the procedure I used:

 * Svn -> Git conversion as in http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git#ConvertaSVNAliothrepositorytoGit,
   except for the tag names, that I prefixed with ‘debian/’.

 * Import of the upstream original directories as explained in
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471560

 * Merged the main and upstream branches.

 * Uploaded to alioth.debian.org/git/debian-med and set up the
   hooks and other meta-data as in http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git

Is it acceptable if I simply delete the emboss directory from our subversion
repository now ? This will not remove it from the history, only from the
checkouts.

Have a nice day,

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[Andreas Tille-5]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:31:42PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:

> Here is the procedure I used:
>
>  * Svn -> Git conversion as in http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git#ConvertaSVNAliothrepositorytoGit,
>    except for the tag names, that I prefixed with ???debian/???.
>
>  * Import of the upstream original directories as explained in
>    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471560
>
>  * Merged the main and upstream branches.
>
>  * Uploaded to alioth.debian.org/git/debian-med and set up the
>    hooks and other meta-data as in http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git

Would you mind adding this into an appendix or some more prominent place
of our policy?  Keeping important information which has good chances to
be reused by others at some point in time should not hang around in a
random mail on the mailing list.
 
> Is it acceptable if I simply delete the emboss directory from our subversion
> repository now ? This will not remove it from the history, only from the
> checkouts.

If you ask me, just go for it.

Thanks for your effort

     Andreas.

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[Charles Plessy-12]

Le Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:14:27AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
>
> Would you mind adding this into an appendix or some more prominent place
> of our policy?

Done, but I lacked information to refresh the html version (isn't that
automatic?), and could not be consistent with whitespace in the DocBook code
because my editor (jEdit) started to become very rebelious.

Here is a link to the changes sent to our commit list:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-commit/2009-November/004463.html

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[Andreas Tille-5]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:10:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Done, but I lacked information to refresh the html version (isn't that
> automatic?),

Yes, it is and your changes finally made it on the website.  But
there seems to be some delay because my slight change about spacing
did not.  

It would be great to add a Makefile which processes the XML before you
commit to be able to check the layout.  David, would you volunteer to
write this?  I'm sure this is the least effort for you since you also
wrote the commit hook.

> and could not be consistent with whitespace in the DocBook code
> because my editor (jEdit) started to become very rebelious.
>
> Here is a link to the changes sent to our commit list:
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-commit/2009-November/004463.html

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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[David Paleino]

Hello Andreas,

On Thursday 05 November 2009 18:48:50, Andreas Tille wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:10:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > Done, but I lacked information to refresh the html version (isn't that
> > automatic?),
>
> Yes, it is and your changes finally made it on the website.  But
> there seems to be some delay because my slight change about spacing
> did not.
>
> It would be great to add a Makefile which processes the XML before you
> commit to be able to check the layout.  David, would you volunteer to
> write this?  I'm sure this is the least effort for you since you also
> wrote the commit hook.

Done, committed in community/website/docs/Makefile . Just "make" ;)

Kindly,
David (who has been DAM-approved, and will hopefully become a DD soon \o/)

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