Announcing mercurial-server version 0.8 - seeking a Debian mentor

[Paul Crowley]

Home page: http://www.lshift.net/mercurial-server.html

mercurial-server gives your developers remote read/write access to 
centralized Mercurial repositories using SSH public key authentication; 
it provides convenient and fine-grained key management and access control.

Though mercurial-server is currently targeted at Debian-based systems 
such as Ubuntu, other users have reported success getting it running on 
other Unix-based systems such as Red Hat. Running it on a non-Unix 
system such as Windows is not supported. You will need root privileges 
to install it.

Version 0.8 includes these improvements over 0.6:

- All restrictions on user and repository names removed (except that 
repository path components may not start with ".")
- Automatic creation of repositories in subdirs
- Debian packaging using the latest standards and tools - lintian clean
- Complete manual in Docbook format
- Limited support for non-root installation and other forms of 
flexibility via .mercurial-server control file
- Some support for installing on non-Debian systems
- Bug fixes eg enabling purge extension to avoid warning
- Improved Makefile/setup.py managed install

0.7 only existed for a day and can be ignored.

I'd like to get this into Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.  If 
anyone here can help with that, please get in touch - thanks!
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   [][][] Paul Crowley
     [][] LShift Ltd
   []  [] www.lshift.net