cvsps 2.x silently mangles CVS repository translations

[Eric S. Raymond]

cvsps 2.x deduces incorrect root locations in branchy CVS repositories, leading to incorrect imports when used with git-cvsimport and other tools relying on cvsps. This is a serious bug that can produce silently damaged repositories. Recovery from it, though possible, is quite difficult, requiring manual intervention with a repository-editing tool such as reposurgeon.

I am the new maintainer of cvsps and have shipped a 3.x release that solves this problem. I have written a replacement git-cvsimport that works with 3.x and am working with the git maintainers to get it merged. I have arranged for new cvsps to fail with an informative error message when called by the existing git-cvsimport.

The cvsps 3.x project page is at <http://www.catb.org/esr/cvsps/>. Please replace 2.x in the repositories as soon as possible; it is too buggy to be safely used.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: cvsps (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic 3.2.31
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 14 05:24:02 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cvsps
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (258 days ago)