On 24/01/25 09:10, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote:
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.
... precisely in 2020-11-29. Before that the DEP recommended
`debian/master`.
As a remainder, that whole `master` deprecation is still controversial
(e.g. should we deprecate "server" and "service" as well?).
Aside from the "master"/"slave" discussion, prefixing branches with a
namespace is a basic good practice when dealing with multiple
development places at the same time (upstream, debian, ubuntu), each
having multiple short- and long-lived branches (mainline, backports,
features).
Even if we were to keep "master" instead of "latest", it's much better
to use "upstream/master" and "debian/master": no name clashes and no
ambiguity about which "master" one is referring to.
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
