Bug 11976

Summary:	cvsps and cvs-fast-export
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Olivier Blin <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	geiger.david68210, lewyssmith
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	cvsps	CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2013-12-13 03:41:30 CET

The release announcement for the last version of CVSps had a note that sounds like it's suggesting that CVSps should either be augmented or replaced by cvs-fast-export:
http://freecode.com/projects/cvsps/releases/359891
http://freecode.com/projects/cvs-fast-export

I don't know that this is something that needs to be addressed right away, but I thought it might be a good idea to bring this to the cvsps package maintainer's attention.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2019-04-04 21:04:57 CEST

5+ years on...
Can this bug be closed? We have survived this far without any action on it.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 2 David Walser 2019-04-04 21:24:26 CEST

No, it still should be fixed.  We just need someone who is interested in maintaining this stuff.  Nobody has been since blino stopped packaging.

Comment 3 David GEIGER 2019-04-05 09:48:56 CEST

So I can import cvs-fast-export (1.47) does this one obsoletes/provides older cvsps?

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210

Comment 4 David GEIGER 2019-04-05 10:29:16 CEST

Also will git-cvs correctly working afterwards?

Comment 5 David Walser 2019-04-05 14:06:19 CEST

(In reply to David GEIGER from comment #3)
> So I can import cvs-fast-export (1.47) does this one obsoletes/provides
> older cvsps?

Yes I think so.

(In reply to David GEIGER from comment #4)
> Also will git-cvs correctly working afterwards?

Does git-cvs even use cvsps anymore?

Comment 6 David GEIGER 2019-04-05 14:17:17 CEST

In git-cvsimport.txt from git source it is said that:


*WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered
deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later.  If you are
performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using
http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or
http://www.catb.org/esr/cvs-fast-export/[cvs-fast-export].

Comment 7 David Walser 2019-04-05 14:20:27 CEST

Interesting.  Well, that certainly backs up the idea that we should replace it.  It'd probably be worth mentioning it in the Release Notes so that people are aware of it.

Comment 8 David GEIGER 2019-04-05 14:42:56 CEST

Ok cvs-fast-export-1.47 imported now in Cauldron and also it obsolete/provide old cvsps!

Comment 9 David Walser 2019-04-05 23:08:47 CEST

Note added in Release Notes.  Thanks!

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED