On 9/15/19 1:10 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 12:01:24AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> It is a real life experience that I had to touch horribly maintained >> packages by unknown contributors, with Vcs-Git: >> https://github.com/<foo>/<bar>, missing commits not matching the >> archive, and no response from the maintainer to the BTS (even for RC >> bugs). The last occurrence of this was pyroute2, which I pushed into the >> DPMT (and still no reply from that past maintainer). I hate seeing this, >> and don't want this anymore, though it happens again, and again, and >> again. So, the only way to get out of this is enforcement, like it or not.. > > I resent the implication that Vcs-Git: pointing to github.com implies > badly maintained packages. > > Badly maintained packages can also have a Vcs-Git: pointing to > gitlab.com or salsa.d.o. Same for ignored bugs in the BTS, unresponsive > maintainers, or incomplete git repositories. None of this has anything > to do with the git hosting service in use.
What I meant was that both combined is very frustrating. Thomas Goirand (zigo)