Hi,
I've uploaded subversion 0.13.0 to Debian unstable. 0.13.2 is
prepared, I am waiting a bit on 0.13.0 feedback before uploading
0.13.2.
I got a mail this morning expressing some concern that including
Subversion in Debian is not a good thing because Subversion is not
finished. I understand that we must be careful with first
impressions. I personally think the inclusion in Debian today will
only help Subversion, but I'd like to hear the opinion of this list.
Some points to consider:
- Subversion has absolutely no chance of getting into the soon to be
released Debian 'woody'. Subversion has a chance to get into the next
Debian release which, if the past is any indicator, will happen
summer 2004.
- The Subversion package description starts out :
"This is a development pre-alpha release of Subversion. Don't use it
on a real project. You risk losing all your data."
- Inclusion of Subverion in Debian at this time allows for any
portability problems on Linux alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, m68k, mips,
mipesel, powerpc, s390, sh, and sparc or hurd-i386 to be addressed
now rather than later. The Debian build daemons will continuously
attempt to build Subversion and at present I even run the testsuite
as part of the build process. (to date all builds have failed but it
isn't Subversion's fault [1])
- In general those who run Debian unstable are not going to write off
a piece of software at the first sign of a bug but will instead file
a bug which may even include a patch that fixes the issue.
Thanks for your input,
David
[1] : http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=subversion
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Received on Mon Jul 8 18:23:41 2002