On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 21:04:18 +0200 Jan Hauke Rahm <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Neil, > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 07:15:30PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > I'm thinking that svn-do could probably migrate into /usr/share instead > > of /usr/bin anyway - there are sections of the script where the author > > clearly expected users to be copying the file and using it as a basis > > for private scripts rather than assuming it would always do the right > > thing. > > Just in case you donÄt remember, svn-do was in /u/s before we added it > to /u/bin recently (0.6.24, May 18th). I would prefer a fix for svn-do > and leave it there as it really is useful for mergeWithUpstream > repositories. OK - I was wondering if there was a particular use case. Couldn't remember. > > I propose to close this bug by adding --svn-ignore and --svn-no-links > > to the export command for all invocations of svn-do and then moving the > > script to /usr/share/svn-buildpackage/contrib/ with a few comments in > > the script. e.g. advising the use of --svn-reuse or --svn-rm-prev-dir > > as alternatives to the existing comment about simply using rm -rf. > > > > If there are real user cases for regular usage of svn-do, I'm OK with > > extending it to support the -- option in 0.7.1 (as this would involve > > changing the manpage which is currently in string freeze for > > translation). > > I'm okay with your suggestion except that I wouldn't move svn-do to /u/s > but leave it in /u/b. Make the changes you proposed and for 0.7.1 we > implement support for --. Don't you think it's more straight forward > than moving an executable twice within two releases? OK, --svn-no-links and --svn-ignore in 0.7.0, support for the -- option in 0.7.1 and keep it in /usr/bin. cloned the bug for the separate fixes. Cloned bug # is 549605. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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