Seeking good web sites for Debian tools

[Erich Schubert]

Hi,

> > Version control: subversion vs CVS?

> subversion is much better" and even the Subversion folks issued a
> release saying "Please don't bother Linus about subversion, as even we
> know it's not good enough."

Now this is a very free interpretation of that statement...
They say that subversion is not the right thing for LK development.
Which is not what most users need in version control, anyway.

Subversion is excellent for version management as long as you have only
user which may either change everything or nothing, and where there is
not much to disagree about accepting or rejecting patches.
For personal, home or office use, svn is great!

Subversion is not optimal, if you want to merge parts of separate trees,
which is what Linux needs, but which less than 1% of software projects
do need.
For gnome, separating the source into modules and just having different
people care about different modules works just fine, IMHO. At least they
are currently even happy with CVS, I guess they would be with SVN, too.

Things that subversion (but have a look at skm or so...) cannot do as
well as others like arch is:
- public read-only repositories as static web pages
- having multiple repositories for one project
- merging changes from multiple repositories

Greetings,
Erich