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From: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Git migration schedule
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 21:40:02 +0200
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sorry, i forgot to ask another question: how will the packages already
maintained in git be handled?

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> wrote:
>> The errors:
>>
>> Cannot "git-dpm init" package: adhocracy
> [8<]
>> Cannot "git-dpm init" package: urlgrabber
>
> those are 98 packages
>
>> I think these are mostly because the package has never been uploaded to
>> Debian, or has a new release staged, or has patch problems.
>>
>>
>> Then:
>> liblarch has
>> Orphaned tag commit: b'935216b70ff944f4fdef508a3ad9a53ede9aff93' b'refs/tags/3.0-1'
>> namebench has
>> Orphaned tag commit: b'06ab8961db663cfd9002288ba098cd8aa523f81b' b'refs/tags/1.1+dfsg-1'
>>
>> These, I don't care about.
>
> + other 2
>
>> We can't merge the svn head into master on:
>> alembic
>> pycryptopp
>> pyme
>> python-concurrent.futures
>> python-django
>> python-eventlet
>> python-pip
>> python-reportlab
>> python-socksipy
>
> and other 9, for a grand total of 109 packages that cannot be
> converted to git, 13.5% of DPMT (oh, what about PAPT?)
>
> am I the only one thinking it's quite a huge number to be handled by
> hand? and whose hands will be the ones converting these packages?
> yours or Barry's dont seem enough and others will need training/time.
>
> Additionally, now we are in the middle of the 3.5 transition, and so
> packages will need updating rather quickly: are we sure this is the
> best time to push full throttle with the migration? I'd rather wait a
> little bit longer and have a more automatic migration at a calmer
> moment for python modules.
>
> --
> Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
> My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
> Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi



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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi