Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> writes: > On 13/01/26 at 00:08 -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: >> > 50.000+ packages used to be a lot to maintain in a single version >> > control repository. By todays standard, it isn't. I suspect if you >> > take all of Deabin's debian/ source directories and put them in a single >> > git repository, it would not be that much larger than say Guix, >> > Homebrew, NixOS, Fedora or some other more centralized packaging system. >> >> Yes, Debian could have a monorepo where each subdirectory is a source >> package name, and the contents is the equivalent of debian/ currently. > > It's already happening at the team level, with > https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf.git (3187 packages) > or > https://salsa.debian.org/haskell-team/DHG_packages.git (1075 packages)
Wow! Can that be combined with tag2upload? Would things just work if git-deborig were teached to fetch upstream git through debian/upstream/metadata? Then I suppose even baredebian repositories would work, without any 'upstream' branch, which I find like an interesting concept to explore. /Simon
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