On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 07:31:11PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > 1- Mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser, meaning we do mandate using Git for > packaging.
Good. Especially if we can then drop quilt. > 2- Mandating using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout for Git, as this > seems to be the most popular layout, and that we need some kind of > consistency. Big fat enormous NO! gbp is a workaround for the biggest evil in our packaging: quilt. Watching pro-git-only talks on the Debconf, I got the impression that if we dropped the VCS-in-VCS approach, there'd be no need for most of that complexity. The vast majority of upstreams already use git, adding 1980's-style patches on top of that is like pulling a non-broken car with a horse. And, a flat tarball like .orig is no longer a preferred form for modification. Do you remember the brouchacha in 2011 when Red Hat released their kernel sources that way? I'd say we should drop .orig and _forbid_ gbp. > 3- Mandating using Salsa as a Git repository. Or perhaps we could have a service mirror official git repos for packages hosted elsewhere? Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ I've read an article about how lively happy music boosts ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ productivity. You can read it, too, you just need the ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ right music while doing so. I recommend Skepticism ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ (funeral doom metal).
