On Tue Mar 17, 2026 at 6:51 AM GMT, Charles Plessy wrote:
DEP5, like RFC822, will never change anymore
This has reminded me of Raphael's (CCed) efforts to revamp DEP3 [1].
One of the most important atoms of feedback on that was to suggest the
changes were too radical for a long-established DEP, and a new number
should be allocated instead. I say important, because deciding on that
issue impacts all the other feedback.
From what I can tell (reading Salsa MRs with lots of review comments is
an utter UX nightmare, I could easily have missed this) there has been
no activity on the MR from Raphael for 2 months, and the last feedback
comment was a month ago. I cannot see that any of the comments were
resolved, or any suggested changes accepted. (I'm not sure whether
anyone except Raphael could, technically or morally, accept changes or
resolve comments. Another ambiguity with the MR workflow)
Hopefully the whole effort is not lost. It would be very good if we
could reach consensus on the issue of new-DEP or not, at least.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/merge_requests/25
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