Hi Arthur,
sorry, I missed this response of yours when drafting my last two
messages to this bug report.
Am Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 11:01:22PM +0100 schrieb Arthur de Jong:
>
> > Please reconsider this. As this is the last package in whole Debian
> > to be maintained via CVS, I suggest to move the pkg maintenance to
> > salsa, which should get you less traffic on your server as well.
> > I see that you use salsa for other packages, so this should not be
> > unfamiliar to you.
>
> If feels hypocritical to manage a package that is meant to expose CVS
> repositories not in CVS so I'd rather not switch to Git for cvsd.
I admit I can follow this argument to some extend.
> It is
> also fun to use cvs commands every 10 years or so to find out that I
> haven't lost muscle memory of the commands yet ;).
:-)
> Also, I really prefer to have as much as possible self-hosted for as
> long possible because I feel we should try to encourage a decentralised
> Internet.
I admit I disagree with this argument.
Invoking a “decentralised Internet” here feels misplaced. Salsa is
operated by the Debian Project itself; using it is not outsourcing
control but relying on shared project infrastructure.
More importantly, keeping this package outside Salsa creates unnecessary
friction. It makes contributions, reviews, and potential co-maintenance
harder, and ties the packaging to a single setup. Hosting it on Salsa
improves transparency, lowers the barrier for others to help, and avoids
a single point of failure if maintenance ever needs to change hands.
It also means missing out on established tooling like Salsa CI, which
provides automated builds, linting, and reproducibility checks out of
the box. That kind of integration directly improves package quality and
reduces manual effort.
Given that this is the only remaining package handled in a different Vcs
than Git, the inconsistency mainly adds cost without a clear benefit.
Thank you for considering the adoption of
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cvsd
which I prepared for your convenience.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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