On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > > finally, from fedora, i am utterly unable to find a package that > > provides git-archimport. pretty sure fedora used to have a > > "git-arch" package but it's not there now. > > It hasn't been in Fedora since 2011. The tla command which is > required for git-archimport was retired, thus we removed the > git-arch package. The rpm changelog shows this: > > * Tue Jul 26 2011 Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> - 1.7.6-4 > - Drop git-arch on fedora >= 16, the tla package has been retired > > As does the git history for the package: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/git/c/3f0dc974fa > > The tla package was retired because it failed to build for > several releases: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tla/blob/master/f/dead.package huh ... well, that raises the question, if tla has been unbuildable for that long (possibly for other distros), what is the value in continuing to support git-archimport? https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-archimport.html i don't really care one way or the other, but perhaps git-archimport should be broken out as a "non-core" component of git. related post coming shortly ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================
