Have I missed the background? is debian/watch getting renamed to debian/upstream -- where is the "conflict"?
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:11:41PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:06:42AM -0500, James McCoy a écrit : > > > That being said, I don't have access to most of the packages. Even if I > > > did, it feels "dirty" to go and commit to a couple hundred packages I > > > have no involvement with instead of adapting two pieces of software to > > > deal with both path names. > > Hi James, > > you already have commit access to the Debian Med packages, like all other > > Debian developers. Please go ahead ! > I take this "go ahead" for "yes, I accept the move". While I would have > no problems with this I wonder if it is appropriate to simply go on here > without at least informing Debian Science and DebiChem who also maintain > some d/upstream files. If I might have sounded against the move in the > past my main problem was that the affected parties were not included into > the decision making process. > So I have put the relevant mailing lists in CC to at least give people > lurking there some heads up and a slight chance to insist. > I would say: If nobody will insist until after the weekend we might go > ahead. And for the actual action I agree with Charles that I see no > problem if James would simply commit a change to Debian Med repositories > (SVN and Git). That's fine and would save us (me or Charles) some work > and is perfectly possible permission-wise. > Kind regards > Andreas. > PS: I think I did not got any answer to my question about further plans > for the debian/upstream/ dir. I would be really happy to understand > the big picture to make sure we will not again invent something which > needs to be changed later on. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140222154310.gf5...@onerussian.com