From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:59:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.
Message-ID: <20130102105919.GA14391@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130102080247.GA20002@elie.Belkin>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> 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.

How does going from "it silently damages imports" to "it fails with
an error message" constitute a regression?
 
> The moment someone takes care of packaging the updated cvsps, I'll
> stop minding, though. ;-)

I'll ping the Debian QA group.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>