Evolve with hg 2.8.2

Sebastian Unger sebunger44 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 22:59:38 UTC 2014


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Faheem Mitha <faheem at faheem.info> wrote:

> Actually, Max Bowsher was maintaining Mercurial PPAs for a while (see
> https://launchpad.net/~maxb/+ppa-packages). He doesn't seem to have kept
> up with it lately, but I don't know if he actually ever officially stopped.

Yeah, I found that too and have already sent him an email privately.


> You could talk with him about it. He has a client idling on #mercurial
> (freenode) much of the time. I just checked, and he is on there right now.
>
Ahh, freenode. That's something like IRC, right? Last time I used IRC was
in 1992 when I was a sysadmin in the student lab at Uni. That's a pretty
dusty corner in my brain but I'll see what I can work out and remember. ;-)

I don't know whether Ubuntu makes any Ubuntu-specific changes to the
> Mercurial package, but Max might be able to tell you.
>
I checked the mercurial debian packaging repo you sent against the Ubuntu
package for mercurial in 14.10 and they are identical (at a certain point
in the history of the packaging repo which is not the head but easy to
find).

Note that `apt-cache showsrc pkgname` often lists the Debian packaging
> repos for pkgname if it exists.

Ahh, neat trick. Gotta remember that. I tracked the thg repo down manually
via good ol' professor Google, but this would have been faster.


> I don't know of a way to track it
> unless someone has set up notification, but you could contact the
> relevant people and ask them.

That's not a show-stopper though. I can always set myself a cron-job on my
machine to pull and send me an email if changed.


> [...]
> Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/
> tortoisehg.git
> Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/tortoisehg.git
>  <============= DEBIAN PACKAGING REPOS
>
Yeah, that's what I found via google. Though upon closer inspection that
appears to be the entire package source, not just the debian packaging. But
again, that's not a huge deal.


> I'm sure I can and will certainly try to find answers to these questions
>> myself online. So if you don't know the answers, ignore them. But if you
>> can answer them off-hand, that would be awesome.
>>
>
> Hope the above was helpful.
>
It most certainly was.


Cheers,
Seb
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