Re: Debian maintainership, using Arch

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:08:39 +0100, Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, unfortunatly I've heard the same thing, I just seemed to remember 
hearing that it could produce atomic changesets from the CVS history (this 
may or may not be true, I've never tried it), so it could be useful in 
getting clean bug fix changesets from CVS. Though at the moment it's 
probably easist to try and do that by hand then, if and when required. I 
seriously doubt any of us have the time/inclination to actually set it up.

>>> 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

Sounds good to me, it would be extreamly useful to have a branch that it 
always consisent with the CVS and CVS always consistent with a central 
branch. Then there should be no problem with people using either arch or 
cvs.

David
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