Hi Sam,
Am Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 10:19:59AM -0600 schrieb Sam Hartman:
>
> Andreas> Another upload, with the removal of the Vcs fields, would
> Andreas> effectively undo the move to Salsa from a package
> Andreas> maintenance perspective. As far as NMU rules are concerned,
> Andreas> I would consider myself responsible for any unintended
> Andreas> consequences caused by my NMU and would take the necessary
> Andreas> actions to address them.
>
> I do not find this response compelling.
> I think having NMUs like you are talking about create and leave
> dangling-but-unused repos in the debian namespace on salsa is
> undesirable.
> So, I disagree with the idea that simply removing the VCS headers gets
> us back to the previous state.
> I think that the debian namespace repo also needs to be removed.
I confirm I missed that bit. I agree that the repository should be
finally removed. I was just talking about the user visible part of the
NMU. This leaves the drawback that Salsa admins will have extra work in
the very improbable case that the repository needs to be cleaned up
later on.
> However, I support your work even if undoing the changes is harder than
> you claim it is.
> I think we should have significant latitude in improving the situation
> of the kind of packages you are talking about.
> Please count me as someone supporting you going forward full steam
> ahead.
Thank you
Andreas.
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