[17791] in athena10
Re: Fate of Zephyr in Debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Chernyakhovsky)
Wed Oct 27 15:14:36 2021
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From: Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:13:55 -0400
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To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
CC: =?UTF-8?Q?Alejandro_R=2E_Sede=C3=B1o?= <asedeno@mit.edu>,
"Alex
Chernyakhovsky" <achernya@mit.edu>,
Debathena Trac <debathena@mit.edu>
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I believe svn2git is not entirely garbage, and I did this for debathena, so
I would say we should at least try to convert the histories before creating
a merge commit.
Sincerely,
-Alex
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 2:51 PM Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "Alejandro" =3D=3D Alejandro R Sede=C3=B1o <asedeno@mit.edu> writes=
:
>
> Alejandro> The subversion repository I mentioned agrees with the
> Alejandro> debian changelog until it ends at 3.0.2-2. Debian has two
> Alejandro> additional releases, 3.1~beta0-1 and 3.1.2-1, plus the
> Alejandro> third no-op release 3.1.2-2 that Sam did earlier today.
> Alejandro> The zephyr-im/zephyr repo has a debian changelog, but
> Alejandro> nothing in it syncs up with what is in debian.
>
> Alejandro> We could reconstitute something from snapshot.debian.org
> Alejandro> for the missing releases if we can=E2=80=99t find the rest=
of the
> Alejandro> history.
>
> How upset would people be if we just asserted the current debian
> directory on top of the git history.
> Doing a svn history to git conversion and having it match up with the
> git history of zephyr-im/zephyr.
>
> I've mostly forgotten how to use svn, but it's not even clear that at the
> svn level, the upstream history and the debian history are common; it
> looks like kcr just imported tarfiles into the debian branch.
> The debian svn repo is separate from the zephyr svn repo.
>
> For something this old, trying to reconstruct history is more work than
> I want to put in.
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr">I believe svn2git is not entirely garbage, and I did this =
for debathena, so I would say we should at least try to convert the histori=
es before creating a merge commit.<div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>=
-Alex</div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"g=
mail_attr">On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 2:51 PM Sam Hartman <<a href=3D"mailt=
o:hartmans@debian.org">hartmans@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockqu=
ote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px=
solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">>>>>> "Alejan=
dro" =3D=3D Alejandro R Sede=C3=B1o <<a href=3D"mailto:asedeno@mit.=
edu" target=3D"_blank">asedeno@mit.edu</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Alejandro> The subversion repository I mentioned agrees wi=
th the<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Alejandro> debian changelog until it ends at 3.0.2-2. Debi=
an has two<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Alejandro> additional releases, 3.1~beta0-1 and 3.1.2-1, p=
lus the<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Alejandro> third no-op release 3.1.2-2 that Sam did earlie=
r today.<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Alejandro> The zephyr-im/zephyr repo has a debian changelo=
g, but<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Alejandro> nothing in it syncs up with what is in debian.<=
br>
<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Alejandro> We could reconstitute something from <a href=3D=
"http://snapshot.debian.org" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">snapshot.=
debian.org</a><br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Alejandro> for the missing releases if we can=E2=80=99t fi=
nd the rest of the<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 Alejandro> history.<br>
<br>
How upset would people be if we just asserted the current debian<br>
directory on top of the git history.<br>
Doing a svn history to git conversion and having it match up with=C2=A0 the=
<br>
git history of zephyr-im/zephyr.<br>
<br>
I've mostly forgotten how to use svn, but it's not even clear that =
at the<br>
svn level, the upstream history and the debian history are common; it<br>
looks like kcr just imported tarfiles into the debian branch.<br>
The debian svn repo is separate from the zephyr svn repo.<br>
<br>
For something this old, trying to reconstruct history is more work than<br>
I want to put in.<br>
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