[Mageia-dev] On importing /soft

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 23:17:06 CET 2011


On 19 January 2011 22:32, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://svn.mageia.org/soft-cleaning/status.html#monitor-edid
> says "- README: Some reference to the Mandriva mailing list and
> bugzilla will need to be changed to Mageia ones"
>
> Do we really want to?
> What is the point?
> I think we can package this tool as-is, as a tool provided by Mandriva
> like if we were packaging a non distro specific tool developed by
> RedHat or Debian or anyone and let people report their bugs upstream
> if the README says so.
>
> If someday it becomes unmaintained or for any other reason, we can
> fork it, but currently I think of it as an external tool and see no
> reason in importing it into our svn
>
> I did not read the full list but I guess there are other standalone
> tools that we don't need to fork into our svn.
>
> Opinions?
>

err... I'd really have appreciated this about two month ago, would
have made my life cleaning the svn/soft much easier :/

Adjusting my approach now (svn rm (in the cleaning repo) is my
favourite command as of late :)).

-- 
Ahmad Samir


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