On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:19:24PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 02:43:56PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > > > The top 10 teams with packages in SVN are: > > > > 347 Debian Med Packaging Team > > <debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org> > > This number contains possibly 150 packages that *could* be migrated - > provided somebody wants to take the time for some unproductive work. > However, we intentionally do packaging of new R CRAN packages in SVN > since in this case packaging is brain dead simple and we keep only the > debian/ dir and not the upstream source in VCS. This is a sensible and > established workflow and currently there is no short term plan to change > this.
Keeping only debian/ in git is supported by gbp as well (see --git-overlay). AFAIK It's not that commonly used so there might be bugs lurking and features lacking but it might be worth a try in case there is some momenturm for moving to git. Cheers, -- Guido > > In short: There is no doubt that Git is the better VCS but spending > developer time simply to switch lots of packages from an old VCS to a > modern one has zero effect on users desktops and has no high priority. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >