On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:03:18PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The vast majority (all?) of git packaging repositories have the upstream > sources. > > I think this point is not really contentious.
Others have demonstrated that this is not the case. However, I believe the majority of git packaging repositories do not break out the upstream source. I also believe that doing so is painful for new contributors: people seem to have varied reasons for doing it and that's fine, but they should be aware of the cost. I see no problem in the DEP standardising on having upstream and ./debian in the repository, those who don't want to follow it aren't mandated to, but having a lot more consistency of vcs-packaging for the majority of packages will make a huge difference for new contributors and I think that's something we should encourage. -- Jonathan Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140818061837.ga20...@bryant.redmars.org
