Re: Debian maintainership, using Arch

David Hough <[email protected]> writes:

>>>> I don't know if this is really workable without having all developers
>>>> switching to Arch, however.
>
> Yeah, this does sound like a good idea, perhaps cscvs or a similar
> tool could be useful for getting changesets from CVS history?
>
Well, I from what I've heard, cscvs is relativly complex, so I don't
know if I can/want to invest as much time to set it up properly.

>> Well, I've set up tla-pqm at merkel.debian.org for
>> guile-gobject[0]. Unfortunatly, merkel.d.o has currently restricted
>> access due to a pending kernel update. Otherwise, and if tla-pqm
>> supports per-archive keyrings already, it would easily be possible to
>> host the patch queue for zinf there, too. Information access to the
>> queue would look like can be found in [1].
>>
> This does sound like it would be a great idea, does such a setup allow
> for changes in the CVS to be automatically synced with the arch
> archive and back again, or would it just be a central arch archive
> that someone would have to manually update with CVS?
>
You could run tla-cvs-sync or cvscs (persumably) automatically after
Arch commits and periodically in the reverse direction.

Andy
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