On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:59:59PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > 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?
I second kilobyte's amendment. Except the part about dropping .orig, somewhat sadly. Put more seriously: #1 I'd agree with, #2 I think is impossible and for #3 I really like the idea of mirroring them all, https://src.fedoraproject.org is indeed really cool. -- tschau, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C
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