On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:17:20 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 06:10:35PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:Hello Gregor,
Bonjour !
On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:00:27 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Given that the "upstream" branch name cames from the git-buildpackage and > > that it's git-buildpackage which introduced "upstreamvcs", it seems fair > > to me to standardize on this name. > In theory, yes. In pratice, quoting myself: > | As a data point, the Debian Perl Group is using "upstream-repo" for > | this additional remote in its tools since December 2013. > Not that one is better than the other, and although I like to follow > git-buildpackage in general, having to change the names on 4000+ > remotes on dozens of developers' machine is annoying. I can certainly sympathize with that. I don't have any strong personal preference in the name but since the goal is to standardize across tools, we need to pick one.
Ack.
Can you point out which tools in the Perl group use that remote name? How easy is it to tweak those tools to perform the rename of the remote in some dynamic fashion?
I (finally) hada quick look, and it should be fairly easy to add the rename to dpt-upstream-repo, which is also called by our .mrconfig setup. Looks like a quick DebCamp project.
On the other side, we could check whether Guido would be willing to update git-buildpackage to use "upstream-repo" as default? I don't know since when "uptsreamvcs" is a thing and whether changing the default again would have serious drawbacks.The work within gbp is almost zero. I'm aware of some scripts that rely on the naming though and we don't know what else exists outside of gbp (and there's also users outside Debian) so if we don't *have* to change the name that would be better.
Agreed. 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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