[aur-general] VCS Packages

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Sep 10, 2011 9:09 AM, "Stefan Husmann" <stefan-husmann at t-online.de>
wrote:
>
> Am 09.09.2011 14:45, schrieb Thomas Dziedzic:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:38 AM, gadget3000<gadget3000 at msn.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> *Repo has moved:*
>>> audacious-hg (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25204) now uses
>>> git
>>> and has been replaced by audacious-git (
>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49520)
>>> audacious-plugins-hg (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11672)
now
>>> uses git and has been replaced by audacious-plugins-git (
>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49521)
>>> comedilib-cvs (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22187) now uses
>>> git
>>> and has been replaced by comedilib-git (
>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50864)
>>> dolphin-emu-svn (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21990) now
uses
>>> git and has been replaced by dolphin-emu-git (
>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51679)
>>>
>>> *Other Considerations:*
>>> emacs-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48701) officially
>>> uses
>>> bzr. emacs-bzr exists (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33337).
>>>
>>> *(Just for reference). Repo has moved. Needs a replacement package
before
>>> merging/deletion:*
>>> All mcabber-module-*-git packages have moved to mercurial. Some may also
be
>>> built into mcabber-hg now as well.
>>> python-commons-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47324) now
>>> uses svn.
>>> thrift-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17977) now uses
svn.
>>> phinix-git (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48443). Dead repo.
I
>>> can't find a mirror but the repo died only between April and September
so
>>> another may pop up soon.
>>>
>>>
>>> Gadget3000
>>>
>>
>> All removed. Thanks!
>>
>> I didn't delete emacs-git because I don't know which one is official.
>> Upstream provides both git [1] and bzr [2] repos for emacs.
>>
>> [1] - http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs
>> [2] - http://savannah.gnu.org/bzr/?group=emacs
>>
> bzr is the official VCS for emacs. The git repo is always a few days
behind.
>
> deleted emacs-git.

Not that I'm in any way affected, but as long as both bzr and git repos work
what's the harm in leaving them there? Some might prefer one or the other
(like, I may already have git installed but not bzr). Just something that
came to mind.