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diff --git a/README.source b/README.source new file mode 100644 index 0000000..717bdcc --- /dev/null +++ b/README.source @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +bbdb for Debian +--------------- + +The upstream site on sourceforge is moribund: no one seems to have write access to CVS. + +I've therefore imported the sources in git. + +Originally imported via: + git cvsimport -v -C bbdb -s -k -u -a bbdb -d :pserver:anonymous@bbdb.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbdb +on 17-Nov-2009 + +The -s -k was a bug, as it substitutes "-k" for "/" in tags, oops, +thus disabling the -k, double oops. + +Manually merged Debian patches and tagged Debian releases. + +Note that the upstream CVS repo did not contain the ./configure file, +while the upstream .orig tarballs do. I have left these out. + +Because of the bad options on the original import, the it was re-done +with corrected options. At this time, proper identity translation was +also done. This means that the file .git/cvs-authors (or the file +passed via -A to git-cvsimport) should contain: + + bbdb-writer=Ronan Waide <waider@waider.ie> + drv=Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> + fenk=Robert Fenk <fenk@users.sourceforge.net> + kensanata=Alex Schroeder <kensanata@yahoo.com> + kuepper=Jochen Küpper <bbdb@jochen-kuepper.de> + sds=Sam Steingold <sds@goems.com> + shenghuo=ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> + simmonmt=Matt Simmons <simmonmt@acm.org> + waider=Ronan Waide <waider@waider.ie> + winkler=Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> + +The old imported tree is abandoned, but still present in the +repository due to release tags. New work should be done on the +re-done import tree. + +To do an incremental update with upstream changes: + cd src/git/BBDB + (make sure branch origin exists, i.e., if necessary: git branch origin origin/origin) + git cvsimport -v -k -u -a bbdb -d :pserver:anonymous@bbdb.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bbdb + + -- Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>, Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:18:15 +0000 |