On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 05:41:21PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > El 11/12/22 a las 16:25, Geert Stappers escribió: > > I'm fine with deleting the current repo at Salsa > > to make room for a repository that has more history. > > Please do so.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/hello/edit has no "Delete project" button for me. (privileges issue) https://salsa.debian.org/stappers/hello/edit does have that button (for reference purposes) > It's not only about the history but about the conventions, > there is a DEP document which recommends a layout for branches and so on, > and the repo you created (I'm afraid) does not follow it at all. > > This is really not a matter of adding fields to a control file, if that was > all, it would be already done. This really involves a change in the way I'm > maintaining the package, which at this point I'm still not comfortable. > > My plan for this would be to create it under my "sanvila" namespace. > But there are a lot of other work to do which is more important than this. > This is still wishlist. The wish is: Make `debcheckout hello` possible. Thanks for expressing "to create it in sanvila namespace". I confirm that https://salsa.debian.org/debian/hello has only 1 branch. And that one branch makes it possible what this bugreport is about. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse