On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 02:35:14PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
I have published similar stats before and I ran a large "poll" on this mailing list with subject "DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?" to find out what the objections are. My take is that a vocal minority with very strong opinions prevent Debian from landing on a default Debian branch name.
The impression I had back then was that it was a vocal minority who thought it was important, and most developers just weren't all that bothered. But this is anecdata ...
Once we have a decision, Guido is more likely to support making that decision the default in git-buildpackage, and the people who previously migrated from master to debian/master or debian/sid (while the historic DEP-14 suggested them) are more likely to change to the final branch name. With this everything would most likely converge.
I think this significantly underestimates the annoyance involved in renaming existing long-lived branches (in that all clients have to re-clone or manually adjust), which is certainly why I generally avoid doing so unless I absolutely have to.
-- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
