Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload
[and 1 more messages]"):
> Your WTF seems to be from a false assumption that git is central to
> Debian package maintenance. It isn't. It is popular, but not central,
> nor standardized.
git is central to most software maintenance in the world at large.
Not all, by any means. But, overwhelmingly, most.
In Debian it's unstandardised *unless* you use dgit push or tag2upload.
Then the git representation *is* standardised, albeit complex.
> The topic of this GR is not streamlining Debian use of git, but allowing
> a simpler path from existing messy git to acceptance into Debian.
I don't think this is true. tag2upload (like dgit) imposes a taxonomy
of git approaches, and defines precisely what each of these named
approaches means.
The system is complicated, and has some unfortunate details (necessary
for compatibility reasons), but it's not an intractable mess.[1]
The alternative would be to try to force every package into the same
mold, which I think is unworkable. It certainly wouldn't be popular.
Ian.
[1] It could be simplified in the future if we were prepared to rule
out various strange things that can be found in source packages. I
think this is quite theoretical, given the political situation.
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