On Tue, 25 Dec 2018, Dominik George wrote: > > We already told you to build your own repo. > > You should probably start with identifying the senders of mail > correctly ☺. I am not the gitlab maintainer (and will never be). https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2018/12/msg00028.html
This wasn't about gitlab. > > > Imho you should start the same way backports started - outside of > > debian. > > Prove that it works and integrate into Debian later. > > I would agree with you if it were a big change - however, the proposal > has a very low impact, if not none at all, on existing stuff. In > contrast to what you seem to believe (accuse people of…), this proposal > is about helping Debian as a whole, not forcing a certain package into > the distribution. gitlab only serves as an example of why it is useful. > The Debian infrastructure already supports everything that is needed to > implement this, and starting with parallel infrastructure would probably > mean that it will fail because this requires a single person spending > time and money to maintain the infrastructure (which is otherwise > already there), and to make it really work, this is a low (think of > buildds, etc.). > > In any case, I do not see why you would fight the fact that someone > makes a detailed proposal. A proposal can be accepted or denied, of > course, but your tone implies you think noone should have made the > proposal i nthe first place. > > Please don't fight people wanting to help based on your opinion about a > prior case around gitlab. I don't fight against it. I just want to keep it away from backports, thats not the same. Alex
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