Re: [aur-general] VCS dupes in the AUR
+1 for *-git vcs dupes to stay, where upstream vcs is a different one. -1 for removal of vcs dupes in general, since apparently different people prefer different vcs. Besides, how much space are these taking all together? 600Kb? regards mar77i
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:45:52PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote:
+1 for *-git vcs dupes to stay, where upstream vcs is a different one. -1 for removal of vcs dupes in general, since apparently different people prefer different vcs. Besides, how much space are these taking all together? 600Kb?
The main point is removing packages where upstream moved to a different VCS and the old VCS repositories are either gone or unmaintained.
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:45:52PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote:
+1 for *-git vcs dupes to stay, where upstream vcs is a different one. -1 for removal of vcs dupes in general, since apparently different people prefer different vcs. Besides, how much space are these taking all together? 600Kb?
The main point is removing packages where upstream moved to a different VCS and the old VCS repositories are either gone or unmaintained.
What they said :-) Is this principle worthy of recording somewhere on the wiki as part of a vcs packages policy? Pete.
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Lukas Fleischer
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Martti Kühne
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Peter Lewis