Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:31:38PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> > > most popular open source revision control software. >> > >> > And among the most horrible ones. >> > >> Agreed. Why anyone would bother to reimplement an alrea

Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Roberto C. Sanchez: > There is a good reason that CVS development has stagnated. CVS is > broken and there are better alternatives. Some people say it's its rotten codebase. A rewrite from scratch hasn't got this problem. The RCS-based file format isn't too bad and optimizes for some common

Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-19 Thread Michael Poole
Luciano Bello writes: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:41 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> So instead of preparing the package, I suggest investing the time to >> migrate projects from CVS to SVN or bazaar instead. > > Beyond the description of the program (from the website), OpenCVS is > simply another

Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-19 Thread Luciano Bello
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:41 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > So instead of preparing the package, I suggest investing the time to > migrate projects from CVS to SVN or bazaar instead. Beyond the description of the program (from the website), OpenCVS is simply another option at the time of implement

Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Ven 19 Août 2005 11:36, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña a écrit : > Also notice that some of our services (web pages, documentation > project) use CVS and will do so for a long time. Having a CVS server > available to switch to if a security issue in the current standard > CVS server is found is

Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-19 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:31:38PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > most popular open source revision control software. > > > > And among the most horrible ones. > > > Agreed. Why anyone would bother to reimplement an already existing free > tool is beyond me. For several reasons, one bei

Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:54:45AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Luciano Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.18.2350 +0200]: > > OpenCVS is a FREE implementation of the Concurrent Versions System, the > > What's non-free about the current implementation? > I think that the original i

Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 06:50:47PM -0300, Luciano Bello wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Luciano Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: opencvs > Version : unknown, posible release: 1st Sep > Upstream Author : Jean-Fran?ois Brousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Bug#323855: ITP: opencvs -- OpenBSD CVS implementation with special emphasis in security

2005-08-18 Thread Luciano Bello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luciano Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: opencvs Version : unknown, posible release: 1st Sep Upstream Author : Jean-François Brousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.opencvs.org/ * License : BSD Descript