Author: plessy
Date: 2011-08-31 12:57:49 +0000 (Wed, 31 Aug 2011)
New Revision: 7600
Modified:
trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Instructions about the VCS URL when migrating a package to Git.
Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2011-08-30 22:29:31 UTC (rev
7599)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2011-08-31 12:57:49 UTC (rev
7600)
@@ -473,6 +473,12 @@
<para>Upload to git.debian.org/git/debian-med and set
up the hooks and other meta-data as explained in the <ulink
url="http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git";>Alioth/Git</ulink> page of the Debian
wiki.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Document in the Subversion repository that the
package has been transferred elsewhere, for instance with a file named
<filename>now_managed_via_git</filename> containing the new VCS URL.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Delete the package in the Subversion repository
after its VCS URL in Stable has been updated by the next release.</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>It is also possible to prepare a Git repository
containing some of the package's history using the command
<command>git-import-dscs --debsnap</command> from the helper toolkit
<command>git-buildpackage</command>. This will download all the versions of a
package available in <ulink
url="http://snapshot.debian.org";>snapshots.debian.org</ulink> and create tags
for each of them. Note that as this paragraph is written, the tool is not aware
that <emphasis>backports</emphasis> should be a different branch</para>
</sect2>
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