On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM Otto Kekäläinen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > Michael Stapelberg proposed in 2017 that the Go team should use > 'debian/sid' as the default branch, in effort to unify with DEP-14 at > the time > (https://go-team.pages.debian.net/workflow-changes.html#_new_workflow_3). > > Turns out using 'sid' as the git HEAD wasn't a good idea, as it may > lead to flip-fopping between 'debian/sid' and 'debian/experimental' or > alternatively leading to uploads to experimental from a branch that is > named 'sid'. Hence in 2020 DEP-14 was updated and clearly recommend > 'debian/latest' as the primary option now. > > >From https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep14/: > > In Debian this means that uploads to unstable and experimental should be > > prepared either in > > the debian/latest branch or respectively in the debian/unstable and > > debian/experimental > > branches. > ... > > The helper tools that do create those repositories should use a command > > like git symbolic-ref > > HEAD refs/heads/debian/latest to update HEAD to point to the desired branch. > > Can we agree to update the Go team policy to follow this and default > to 'debian/latest' going forward? >
There are already too many long threads about changing workflow. I feel it is difficult and there is no time to follow on. I feel frustrated that someone joined the Go team newly and continuously proposed changing workflow while I think most existing uploaders are used to the old workflow. The old one just works. -- Shengjing Zhu
