On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 5:15 PM Moritz Mühlenhoff <mmuhlenh...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Antoine, > > [Adding Riccardo Coccioli, my colleague at Wikimedia and the primary > author of Cumin to CC] > > > which makes me wonder: should we drop the debian branch on github and > > gerrit? or should we (say, debian sponsors) pull changes from you and > > sync them to salsa? > > > > how should we play this long term? > > My proposal would be to discard the debian branch on gerrit/github and > make salsa.debian.org the authoritative repository for Cumin debs (and > just build backports for apt.wikimedia.org based on the latest version > on salsa/unstable). > > But let's hear from Riccardo on this as well. > > Cheers, > Moritz > I'd like to better understand why it would be better/easier to move the debian branch into salsa instead of leaving it attached to the upstream project. I'm not that familiar with the whole debian process, so correct me if I'm missing something obvious. It would seem to me that leaving the debian branch into the upstream repository would also allow other distro/users to build their own deb package using the same config without importing a separate repository. As for the debian/watch file if you don't mind I would like to upload a slightly different one that I use for another project as the tags are all signed and it does work with the new GitHub APIs (see also the recent "Q: uscan with GitHub" thread in debian-devel). Thanks both for resuming the work on this! Riccardo
