[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Deprecate ABS?

[Eli Schwartz]

On 03/25/2017 07:24 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Allan complained yesterday that ABS is apparently broken. Turns out that
> most likely it is broken at least since 2016-07-07.
> 
> The script received no changes since 2012-09-07 and the main advantage
> it brings is an easy way to pull all PKGBUILDs. But we also provide
> public Subversion and Git repositories. Initial svn checkout for
> community and packages takes less than 3 minutes on my rather slow
> connection (for European standards); obviously subsequent updates are
> faster. Full git clone is slow, but shallow one takes ca. 10 seconds
> (for both).
> 
> If someone needs to checkout just one package, svn has sparse checkouts
> and for git, Dave wrote asp[1]. This brings the question, what is the
> point of keeping it running?
> 
> Bartłomiej
> 
> [1] https://github.com/falconindy/asp

If we are deprecating ABS (which is yay!) then can we get a stable
release of asp in [extra] to replace it?

Also would be nice to have an official stance on whether full svn
checkouts are okay, since https://www.archlinux.org/svn/ strongly warns
people against doing so... and comparing all PKGBUILDs at once is
somewhat awkward when using separate branches in git (though git-grep
does take multiple trees at least).

-- 
Eli Schwartz

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