James Denholm wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 05:39:42PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > (...) I would venture to say you have never made a package in your > > life. > > And you have, Felipe? Let us see the years of experience you surely have > in the field. As a matter of fact, yes I've written many packages, for Debian, Fedora, ArchLinux, and others. Even Windows installers. But that's a red herring. Even if was the worst packager in history, that doesn't make Junio's decision any more correct. > > The fact that you think packagers of git would simply package > > git-remote-hg/bzr as well is pretty appalling. > > It's not an outlandish thought, in fact, I'd suggest it as probable - > provided that they find the projects to be stable and of high quality. Do you want to bet? > You, or someone else, might have to tap them on the shoulder and play > nice to _ensure_ they know about them (after all, we all know that > packagers _never_ read READMEs, do they), but you're capable of that, > I'm sure. In my experience packagers scratch their own itches, and if git-remote-hg/bzr are not their itch, I don't see why any amount of nice poking would make them package them. Some other packager would have to do it, not the Git packagers. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html