David MartÃnez Moreno schrieb: > >>So I suppose this package is not being maintained any longer (last >>'unstable' ChangeLog Thu, 21 Jul 2005) and I haven't found any 'viewvc' >>package. > > > No, you are wrong. I am maintaining it, but the switch to viewvc is not > yet > done. I am spending time making the changes. I hope to have it in a couple of > weeks. >
Thanks Ender! That's great to hear! So if I understand this correctly: http://www.debian.org/devel/testing once the Sid/unstable package is done, people could start test it. Of course that would be people who actually have svn/cvs repositories with apache(2) and viewvc/viewcvs and are willing to got through all the trouble of setting this up on a spare Sid/unstable system. If that package has fewer release critical bugs than the previous version then after 10 days it would propagate to Etch/testing. (Unless there are build failures for some archs that it used to build for or it breaks other packages due to dependency issues. Yet it seems that the only package that depends on viewcvs is viewcvs-query.) Since viewcvs depends on a few packages that probably have newer versions in Etch/testing compared to Sarge/stable, I would suppose one would need to backport to Sarge for a stable production system like gna.org since this is not a security issue and seems to be a larger upgrade and therefor won't be part of the standard Sarge/stable distribution. Would you, Ender, also maintain a backport for Sarge/stable on http://www.backports.org/ or do you know someone who would? And Mathieu, would you consider using this upgrade if it became available on http://www.backports.org/ or rather resolve this issue locally? Cheers, David
