License: GPL
I have long been interested in moving the debian-policy package away from CVS, but had never quite managed to gather enough motivation to do the switch. Debian policy has long had an Alioth project, but I finally managed to file a support ticket, and nag Wichert into creating the arch project for policy.
The first step was to convert the CVS version into an arch
repository, and this is where cscvs comes in. cscvs is
nice, but I am told that Canonical has a better, private version,
and helpful folks there offered to do a managed conversion to arch
for me using these cutting edge tools. I declined, being
persnickety enough to want to convert Debian technical policy using
tools in Debian itself. And, apart from two change-sets (numbers
117 and 125), cscvs managed to do the conversion to arch (the
bazaar flavour)
nicely on its own (well, after a few false starts as I climbed the
learning curve). Came to 283 change-sets. Have a look at
my Debian policy branch. It can be registered at
http://arch.debian.org/arch/private/srivasta/archive-etch/.
The next step was to create a baz archive on
arch.debian.org, and use Clint’s ACL recipe to allow
people in the dbnpolicy group to have write access. And
then, since I wanted this branch to also have the full set of
distinct patch logs, I cycled through all 286 patches in my local
branch, replayed and committed them into the remote branch one by
one. You may
browse the public, or release, branch as well. This version can
be registered at
http://arch.debian.org/arch/dbnpolicy/etch/.