* Package name    : dvc
  Version         : 0r20080828
  Upstream Author : Stephan Reichoer <stefan@xsteve.at>
* URL or Web page : http://download.gna.org/dvc
* License         : GPL
  Description     : Emacs front-end to distributed version control systems

 DVC is an attempt to build a common infrastructure for various
 distributed revision control systems. Actually supported are tla,
 bazaar, bzr, git, mercurial, darcs and monotone.
 .
 DVC main features are:
   * dvc-status: Intuitive interface for status viewing.
   * dvc-log: Log viewer.
   * dvc-diff: View uncommitted changes in your working directory.
   * dvc-bookmarks: Bookmark manager with partner support.
   * Integration with ediff, Emacs's graphical diff tool.
   * dvc-missing: Interface to view missing patches from all your
     partners with a single command.
   * Send/receive/apply patches via the Gnus email client.
   * Run many version control commands from Emacs (such as init and
     pull).

Any progress on this ITP? I am currently using dvc debian packages
built from the bzr source that is linked to at
http://download.gna.org/dvc/. It would be nice to get this into Debian
proper.

I see that it was tagged as pending, but the tag was removed.

Thanks,
Daniel

Le 5623 Septembre 1993, Daniel Moerner a envoyé:

Hello,

This bug is actually "forwared" upstream as the package was rejected
for wrong copyright notices:

Regards.

Hi,

Any news on this ITP?

Antony

Antony Gelberg <antony.gelberg@gmail.com> writes:

Hello,

No, the upstream does not fix the issue and the software is in
hard-sleep mode, main developers seems busy but apply some patch sent to
them.

The DVC team wish to integrate emacs, that day the copyright issue will
be resolved and I will be able to make a dvc-snapshot package.

For now, it can be closed, should I close it or tag it as wontfix?

Thanks to Julien who accepted to be my mentor, and sorry for not being
able to integrate this package.

Regards.

If the software is never to be packaged, close it.

retitle 496930 RFP: dvc -- Emacs front-end to distributed version control systems
noowner 496930
thanks

Hi,

This is an automatic email to change the status of dvc back from ITP
(Intent to Package) to RFP (Request for Package), because this bug hasn't seen
any activity during the last 6 months.

If you are still interested in adopting dvc, please send a mail to
<control@bugs.debian.org> with:

 retitle 496930 ITP: dvc -- Emacs front-end to distributed version control systems
 owner 496930 !
 thanks

However, it is not recommended to keep ITP for a long time without acting on
the package, as it might cause other prospective maintainers to refrain from
packaging that software. It is also a good idea to document your progress on
this ITP from time to time, by mailing <496930@bugs.debian.org>.

Thank you for your interest in Debian,

Upstream development <URL:http://bzr.xsteve.at/dvc/> has resumed in
recent months, with what appear to be some improvements and bug fixes
committed to the VCS.

Are you still interested in collaborating with upstream to get this
package into Debian?

Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:

I did not notice it, I switched to magit[1].

I rarely use something else than Git, I really prefer magit over DVC and
I'm not interested in it any more.

Regards.

Footnotes:
[1]  http://magit.vc

This package is more appropriately named emacs-dvc, especially now in 2021.

Gna! was shutdown in 2017 (see [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gna! )
so http://download.gna.org/dvc is no more.  Fortunately, it is archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20170307015429/http://download.gna.org/dvc/

The author's site should now be regarded as the canonical homepage of
Emacs-DVC: http://xsteve.at/prg/emacs_dvc/

Upstream author's Bazaar repository is still up.  It may be checked out with

    brz checkout http://bzr.xsteve.at/dvc

or, better yet, as Git is being used on salsa.debian.org:

    git clone bzr::http://bzr.xsteve.at/dvc

It was last updated on 2015-10-09.  debian/* is included upstream:

    This package was debianized by Matthieu Moy on
    Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:15:25 +0200. Small additional changes were made by
    Milan Zamazal and Daniel Dehennin completely repackage it.

so it should make it easier for packaging for Debian a lot easier.

There is a newer and unrelated project called "Data Version Control"
at dvc.org which now has higher notability.  Taking the cue from Guix
which packages DVC.el as emacs-dvc (see
https://guix.gnu.org/es/packages/emacs-dvc-0.0.0-1.591/ ), I think
Debian should package it as emacs-dvc too.

I might actually adapt Daniel Dehennin's packaging and uplaod io
Debian in the not too distant future.  We'll see.  :-)

Cheers,
Anthony