From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 05:24:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-helpers: point at their upstream repositories
Message-ID: <5376f27b74d9f_66768eb3048f@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <20140517021117.GA29866@debian>

James Denholm wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 05:39:42PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > (...) I would venture to say you have never made a package in your
> > life.
> 
> And you have, Felipe? Let us see the years of experience you surely have
> in the field.

As a matter of fact, yes I've written many packages, for Debian, Fedora,
ArchLinux, and others. Even Windows installers.

But that's a red herring. Even if was the worst packager in history,
that doesn't make Junio's decision any more correct.

> > The fact that you think packagers of git would simply package
> > git-remote-hg/bzr as well is pretty appalling.
> 
> It's not an outlandish thought, in fact, I'd suggest it as probable -
> provided that they find the projects to be stable and of high quality.

Do you want to bet?

> You, or someone else, might have to tap them on the shoulder and play
> nice to _ensure_ they know about them (after all, we all know that
> packagers _never_ read READMEs, do they), but you're capable of that,
> I'm sure.

In my experience packagers scratch their own itches, and if
git-remote-hg/bzr are not their itch, I don't see why any amount of
nice poking would make them package them. Some other packager would have
to do it, not the Git packagers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras