Hello,

Simon Josefsson [15/Jan  3:58pm +01] wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On 13/01/26 at 00:08 -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
>>> > 50.000+ packages used to be a lot to maintain in a single version
>>> > control repository.  By todays standard, it isn't.  I suspect if you
>>> > take all of Deabin's debian/ source directories and put them in a single
>>> > git repository, it would not be that much larger than say Guix,
>>> > Homebrew, NixOS, Fedora or some other more centralized packaging system.
>>>
>>> Yes, Debian could have a monorepo where each subdirectory is a source
>>> package name, and the contents is the equivalent of debian/ currently.
>>
>> It's already happening at the team level, with
>> https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf.git (3187 packages)
>> or
>> https://salsa.debian.org/haskell-team/DHG_packages.git (1075 packages)
>
> Wow!
>
> Can that be combined with tag2upload?

Not at present: #969925.

> Would things just work if git-deborig were teached to fetch upstream git
> through debian/upstream/metadata?
>
> Then I suppose even baredebian repositories would work, without any
> 'upstream' branch, which I find like an interesting concept to explore.

That might be interesting independent of monorepos.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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