Il 24/01/2025 23:12, Soren Stoutner ha scritto:

On Friday, January 24, 2025 9:50:10 AM MST Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> Thanks everyone for sharing your viewpoints, it is interesting to read!

>

> I feel I need to clarify that I am not a native English speaker and my

> intent was to write a polite and honest email. It does not say

> anywhere that "you must use debian/latest". I am happy with whatever

> the convention is, as long as it works, and is universal at least for

> new packages.

>

> I am fine if single-maintainer packages, or closed-team packages do

> whatever they want, as it won't affect others (at least immediately),

> but not having "best practice" agreed on basic things like git

> branches does cause unnecessary friction and time waste for those who

> participate in the maintenance of packages in multiple different

> teams, at least from my perspective.

>

> As somebody who is mentoring multiple new maintainers, I see them in

> particular having unnecessary hardship from lack of properly agreed

> conventions. For the long-term success of Debian, I think that

> discussing the best practices and having some things agreed is

> valuable, even though running the discussions does take energy.


I agree that we need one standard naming scheme.  Based on the email responses, it seems like debian/latest doesn’t convey the appropriate meaning, with something like debian/unstable being more appropriate.


debian/unstable is not good in case in default branch want to keep the latest work regardless of uploads to unstable or experimental, and use debian/unstable only if the latest versions are uploaded to experimental (could also be just for the freeze period) but urgent fixes are needed for unstable


Perhaps you should create a vote with MR options (similar to the one you did for DEP-0 naming).  Once there is a strong consensus on what the name should be, I would recommend that gbp be reprogrammed to default to that name (I know it is a lot of work), and after that it will probably be fairly easy to to get DEP-14 accepted.


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Soren Stoutner

so...@debian.org


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