On Wed, 2024-06-12 at 10:43 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > There was more confusion about this point than I had anticipated, so > I want to emphasize that the dgit-repos server is not a forge, is not > a competitor to Salsa, doesn't replace Salsa in any way, and is not > something that people interact with the way that they interact with > Salsa. > It's much closer to a Git equivalent of archive.debian.org: a > persistent historical record accessible via the Git protocol and (as > I discovered during this thread) a cgit web interface.
In that sense, it's more like snapshot.debian.org, I think? archive.d.o stores historical releases of Debian as a whole, not individual uploads that happen between stable releases. (With perfect hindsight, "archive" is a horribly overloaded word in Debian terms, but...) Regards, Adam
