On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:22:20 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > Il 24/01/2025 02:06, Otto Kekäläinen ha scritto: > > Why does the majority of Debian packages still use 'master' or > > 'debian/master' branch as the main development branch? > I think: > - because is not the default in tools
Yes, and more importantly: > - because it is not easy and fast to migrate and if you do it you have to > redo the local repository, if you are alone working on the repository it is > not a big problem while if you are many it can create inconveniences IMO this is the real hurdle. Migrating thousands (in the case of pkg-perl) repos both remote/on salsa and locally (for dozens of team members) is not trivial, and AFAIK noone so far has come up with working tooling. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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