On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
Given the great abundance of revision control systems already packaged
for Debian, what is the point of adding another? Especially when it is
non-free.
Firstly, as it is non-free, it isn't really going into Debian.
Secondly,
Le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 à 15:01 +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit :
It seems every other semi-controversial ITP gets an obligatory why
package this when we have X,Y,Z instead? reply, although seemingly
never from an ftp-master or mirror maintainer or anyone else who is
actually impacted by archive
Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems every other semi-controversial ITP gets an obligatory why
package this when we have X,Y,Z instead? reply, although seemingly
never from an ftp-master or mirror maintainer or anyone else who is
actually impacted by archive sizes :-(
Consider it
* Pierre Habouzit:
(I don't know anything about Perforce. Perhaps it's really dangerous
software. But perhaps it's just non-free.)
OTOH I'm always reluctant to see new things enter non-free when there
is perfectly suitable alternatives. I mean git, hg, bzr, or even the
horrible svn can
On 08-Oct-07, 16:15 (CDT), Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Roberto C. S??nchez wrote:
Given the great abundance of revision control systems already packaged
for Debian, what is the point of adding another?
I don't see the relevance
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:42 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems to me that this depends on Perforce. D'oh.
(I don't know anything about Perforce. Perhaps it's really dangerous
software. But perhaps it's just non-free.)
Perforce is an
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 05:41 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote:
Given the great abundance of revision control systems already packaged
for Debian, what is the point of adding another? Especially when
Sam Clegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perforce is an absolutely *excellent* VCS with the unfortunate
distinction of being proprietary. SubVersion can do most (but not all) of
what it does, albeit 10 times slower. Still, I've migrated all of my stuff
over to subversion, because, well,
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
Given the great abundance of revision control systems already packaged
for Debian, what is the point of adding another?
I don't see the relevance of this argument, really, but if you really think
it's a problem: What if someone
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:15:38PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
Given the great abundance of revision control systems already packaged
for Debian, what is the point of adding another?
I don't see the relevance of
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sam Clegg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: perforce
Version : 2007.2-2
Upstream Author : Perforce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.perforce.com/
* License : proprietary
Programming Lang: binary only (with
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:30:09PM +0100, Sam Clegg wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sam Clegg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: perforce
Version : 2007.2-2
Upstream Author : Perforce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.perforce.com/
*
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote:
Given the great abundance of revision control systems already packaged
for Debian, what is the point of adding another? Especially when it is
non-free.
How about people use it? There's plenty of installations of
perforce; I
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:52:55PM +, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote:
Given the great abundance of revision control systems already packaged
for Debian, what is the point of adding another? Especially when it is
non-free.
* Pierre Habouzit:
How about people use it? There's plenty of installations of
perforce;
s/perforce/windows/ and the sentence is still true ;)
The Windows copyright is pretty restrictive AFAIK. If it weren't, I'm
certain we hould ship things like Virtualbox VMs in non-free because
there
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems to me that this depends on Perforce. D'oh.
(I don't know anything about Perforce. Perhaps it's really dangerous
software. But perhaps it's just non-free.)
Perforce is an absolutely *excellent* VCS with the unfortunate
distinction of
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:32:23PM +, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Pierre Habouzit:
I think making it easier to use Debian with them is
within the mandate for non-free.
There is ways to interact with perforce in debian, in a free way:
git-p4 being one of them.
| * The import does not
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote:
Given the great abundance of revision control systems already packaged
for Debian, what is the point of adding another? Especially when it is
non-free.
How about people use it? There's plenty of
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