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Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 2, 2013, 08:02 UTC
Message-ID
<20130102080247.GA20002@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To
<20130102003344.GA9651@thyrsus.com>
Hi,
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
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>> So..., is this a flag-day patch?
>>
>> After this is merged, users who have been interoperating with CVS
>> repositories with the older cvsps have to install the updated cvsps
>> before using a new version of Git that ships with it?
>
> Yes, they must install an updated cvsps. But this is hardly a loss, as
> the old version was perilously broken.

Speaking with my Debian packager hat on: the updated cvsps is not available in Debian. "git cvsimport" is, and it has users that report bugs from time to time. With this change, I would either have to take on responsibility for maintenance of the cvsps package (not going to happen) or drop "git cvsimport". That's a serious regression.

The moment someone takes care of packaging the updated cvsps, I'll stop minding, though. ;-)

I wouldn't be surprised if the situation on other OSes is similar. This is too early to require such a dependency.

Hope that helps, Jonathan

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  1. Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.Eric S. Raymond, Jan 1, 2013
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  3. Eric S. RaymondJan 2, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2013
  5. Jonathan NiederJan 2, 2013
  6. Eric S. RaymondJan 2, 2013
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  8. Eric S. RaymondJan 2, 2013
  9. Martin LanghoffJan 2, 2013
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  11. Thomas BergJan 2, 2013
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  13. Eric S. RaymondJan 2, 2013
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  15. Jonathan NiederJan 2, 2013
  16. Andreas SchwabJan 2, 2013
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2013
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  19. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2013
  20. Chris RorvickJan 3, 2013
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  22. Antoine PelisseJan 3, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoJan 3, 2013
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