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No central VCS for Debian source packagesNo central VCS for Debian source packagesPosted May 22, 2008 6:16 UTC (Thu) by rhertzog (subscriber, #4671)In reply to: No central VCS for Debian source packages by bignose Parent article: Debian contemplates patch management
>The Alioth admins reject requests to use it merely as storage for a package without a need for ongoing collaborative maintenance. This is wrong. See http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject for details. You can host your VCS repository in collab-maint even if you're alone working on your package. Alioth is clearly the most used resource to host VCS for package management but it's not a resource that has to be used by everybody. Each maintainer has the liberty to host it whereever he prefers. -- Raphael Hertzog, Alioth admin
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No central VCS for Debian source packages Posted May 22, 2008 19:16 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link] My understanding of Alioth's policy was based on a rejection notice I received a while ago: > looking at the description of your project request, it's not clear at all that you need a full Alioth project to effectively co-maintain your package. (This rejection was quite justified, IMO.) From this I understood that Alioth doesn't accept "it's a Debian package" as the sole basis for hosting a package. It was this that I referred to in my initial comment on the article. I suppose that, although the above rejection notice doesn't mention Alioth's 'collab-maint' project, it doesn't exclude the possibility either.
No central VCS for Debian source packages Posted May 22, 2008 21:58 UTC (Thu) by rhertzog (subscriber, #4671) [Link] >My understanding of Alioth's policy was based on a rejection notice I received a while ago: The subject of that rejection is "Please use collab-maint" and the second paragraph says: "Please check out http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/04/msg... and http://wiki.debian.org/AliothPackagingProject" It's that not enough hints to point you to collab-maint, I don't know what we can do. :-) -- Raphael Hertzog
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