Bug#871950: git: Please keep packaging git archimport

2017-08-15 Thread Sergio Callegari
On 15/08/2017 21:30, Jonathan Nieder wrote: That makes sense. I am going to try to move git-archimport.perl to contrib/ upstream and package it in either /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/ or /usr/share/git-core/contrib/ like other contrib scripts. I'll include instructions in

Bug#871950: git: Please keep packaging git archimport

2017-08-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Sergio, Sergio Callegari wrote: > Initially, I thought that the archimport was something > that needed git to be recompiled, while now I see that it is a > script that I can simply drop somewhere and make accessible by git > via an environment variable. > > For tla, my hope is that

Bug#871950: git: Please keep packaging git archimport

2017-08-15 Thread Sergio Callegari
Dear Jonathan, thank you for your email. Indeed, I should have checked that the archimport script could be installed without recompiling the whole of git, being a perl script rather than compiled C. My problem is in fact mostly an ubuntu related problem. Even if debian planned retiring tla

Bug#871950: git: Please keep packaging git archimport

2017-08-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Sergio, Sergio wrote: > please reconsider the decision in #866059 to stop packaging git-archimport. > > It makes it unnecessary cumbersome to recover tla data from backups > and deprives git from one of the components that its upstream > maintainers consider worthwhile distributing. > > Even

Bug#871950: git: Please keep packaging git archimport

2017-08-12 Thread Sergio
Package: git Version: 1:2.11.0-3+deb9u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, please reconsider the decision in #866059 to stop packaging git-archimport. It makes it unnecessary cumbersome to recover tla data from backups and deprives git from one of the components that its upstream maintainers