On Jan 24, Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org> wrote: > I would be curious to hear why people are *not* adopting 'debian/latest'? > > Why does the majority of Debian packages still use 'master' or > 'debian/master' branch as the main development branch? Because it works fine and it is the most commonly used branch name for development. It is also shorter, which is nice.
> Is it simply because git-buildpackage does not to default to 'debian/latest'? No, I am happy to change other gbp defaults. > The DEP-14 has been around since November 2014 and one would think > that DDs would have adopted 'debian/latest' as the default branch and > git head now. Since 2020/2021 the whole 'master' was deprecated in > favor of 'main' by most git services and tools, yet 'master' is still > the most popular one in Debian. Clearly not deprecated enough... Hence the real question here is: why do you think that "the majority of Debian packages" should change the branch name that they are currently using instead of you accepting it for your proposed standard? I think that this is the core issue with DEP-14. > Git is a great tool for collaboration. It is sad to see that in Debian > usage of git is stifled by simple things like people not agreeing to > use a common branch naming scheme despite there being a proposal for > 10+ years now. It is not obvious at all to me how this would be stifling usage of git in Debian. -- ciao, Marco
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