On Saturday 24 October 2015 09:49:15 Jérémy Lal wrote: > i'm now a happy daily user of gitg 3.18 on debian/sid - and couldn't work > without it.
I'm glad for you but as a daily user of older Gitg-2 I can't use new one
(3.x) due to
* broken/unusable diff view making it impossible to review large diffs
involving many files.
* lack of "blame" view.
* FTBFS of 3.18.0.
> Note the slow loading of large diffs seems to be fixed (2 seconds for a
> very large one).
I'm glad to read that but I'm unable to confirm it because 3.18.0 FTBFS.
3.17.1 is unfortunately up to 15 times slower than Gitg-2 -- when the latter
takes 1.5 seconds to start, Gitg-3 may initialise for bloody 15(!) seconds.
I just can't stand it but as I've said earlier this is not a blocker as I
don't expect new Gitg-3 (with all its new dependencies) to work any faster
(or even at the same speed) as the Gitg-2.
> Please accept help for packaging,
Could you help to fix FTBFS or maybe follow-up with upstream please?
> as i really don't understand why not
> uploading gitg 3.18 to unstable is wrong.
Because it will remove old Gitg-2 which is still more usable than Gitg-3.
I'm nor replacing bad with worse -- not just yet.
You are welcome to work in experimental branch but please do not upload to
"unstable" yet.
> I'm offering co-maintenance of the package here.
Thank you. I'm entertaining idea of uploading new source package "gitg2" and
orphan Gitg-3 and its dependencies (or hand 'em over to you). I'll let you
know when I'll arrive at my decision -- I'm too busy to think about it right
now so I need to take some time... :(
> If it is so buggy as to not go to testing, migration-blocking bugs can be
> added easily.
This is not the point. We need to preserve Gitg-2 for a time being until
Gitg-3 is ready.
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Cheers,
Dmitry Smirnov.
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