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Re: categories of science: math biology geography ? and?



Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:07:29 -0500
> Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> I'm not suggesting they should all be moved, but it 
>> would be nice to stop adding to the confusion (for those of us who care 
>> about categories).
>
> I'm in favor of moving some packages after we have migrated to a VCS
> that can preserve commit history for file renames. With cvs the cost of
> rototil is too heavy. Same reason we still have patch-aa in some places.

Also pkgin fug and pkg_rolling-replace should be able to cope with
tracking renames.  We sort of have metadata in CHANGES, but I'm not sure
it's really as machine-readable as we think it is.

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