Hi Jonathan, Marc,
On 29-07-12 18:19, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
I would be very happy to see cgit in Debian. Perhaps we could
approach this by building cgit from the git source package, either
using dpkg source format 3.0's multiple-tarball feature or by
including cgit in the Debian patch.
Would you be interested in this approach? Do you have initial cgit
packaging to play with?
I'd like to propse another solution for this: let git build a git-source
binary package, and build cgit using that package. I see a few advantages
for this over building cgit from the git source package:
- It doesn't group multiple separate projects into a single source package.
While technically possible with the 3.0 source format, having separate
source packages is more logical imo.
- If cgit is broken due to a change in git, the git package doesn't FTBFS.
This has the added advantage of cgit not holding up new releases, testing
migrations, etc. of git.
- Smaller packages are easier to maintain in my experience, though that's a
bit subjective of course.
The obvious downside is introduction of a new -source package. Since we
cannot build-depend on source packages yet, and there are already ~80 such
packages in the archive, I think this is acceptable. With the recent
Built-Using introduction this also doesn't impose any licensing problems.
If this route is acceptable for the git maintainers, I'm willing to step up
as cgit (co-)maintainer. If someone else wants to join too, that's great! ;)
Regards,
Oxan
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