Re: [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 11, 2005, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3bpgglmo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200508111745.49128.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:

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>>    rank  name            inst    vote     old recent
>>    6591  git              114      24      83      7
>>    25555 git-core           2       1       0      1 (Not in sid)
>>    29939 cogito-scm         1       0       1      0 (Not in sid)
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> This obviously is not even a fair assesment of the potential
> popularity of this new kernel package admin tool.  By holding to this
> attitude, you will surely alienate linux users away from debian.

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> If so far, only 114 people out of the 7147 who were kind enough to
> fill out a questionaire have installed the debian 'git' and 24 report
> that they are using this tool, then obviously once a stable release of
> the Linus version of git has been achieved, the user count of the new
> tool will handily exceed the user count of the older and totally
> different toolkit from gnu.  This will occur within 24 hours of a
> working, stable release of the Linus git.  Possibly aleady has
> occured, I have it (the rpm) here already.

I suspect you are confused. The entry "git" in above table is the GNU interactive tools and comment about 114/7147 ratio is about GNU interactive tools, not our GIT. Ours are "git-core" and "cogito-scm", marked as "Not in sid". I do not understand why you think my attitude would alienate users away from debian.

As you say, when it is included in the official archive, I expect our numbers would exceed "the other GIT" very quickly.