Hello, On Thu 13 Jun 2024 at 04:13pm +01, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 15:08:15 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> I think it is possible that there will be a handful of packages where >> things are significantly more awkward, which might not be able to >> adopt tag2upload. > > This would presumably be the same minority of packages where maintainers > use a debian/-only workflow (even if they normally prefer to keep upstream > source in git) and avoid dgit (even if they normally prefer to use it), > because the upstream source is too bulky to be convenient to track in git? > Such as the openarena-data family and other large game assets? > > Those packages are already exceptional and already need to be handled > specially. They'd only be a problem if dgit and/or tag2upload became > mandatory, which (as far as I understand it) is not the plan. Yup, those packages -- I myself always think of you and some of your packages when I think about this particular issue. -- Sean Whitton
