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On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 08:00:00AM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> Why did you do the commits on a new branch debian/experimental?

This is usually done when you want to keep commits for unstable
and experimental separate.

> Are you thinking those commits were temporary and might be thrown
> away instead of being done on the default branch?

That's usually the case.

> When are you going to merge in on debian/latest?

Assuming you are talking about golang-github-azure-azure-sdk-for-go,
the branch was created just a few days ago. Is it already
necessary to know the answer to that?

> Are people who want to make improvements to the package expected to
> target MRs on debian/latest or on debian/experimental?

You can send the patch to the BTS and let the uploader decide :-)

> If you upload from the non-default branch, should you change it to
> the repository default branch?  Or in the upload add a `-b
> debian/experimental` suffix to the debian/control:Vcs-Git line so
> that vcswatch can keep track of that real state of the package?

I don't think that's necessary if it's a short-lived branch.


Now, given that I have been able to answer to most of those questions
based solely on common sense any my own use of experimental, I wonder
if the above questions are genuine and related to the package at hand,
or maybe they are a form of criticism of the use of
debian/experimental branches in general.

Thanks.

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