On 24/07/26 1:10 am, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> Le jeu. 23 juil. 2026 à 21:33, Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Did we consider using a monorepo like the Rust team is doing for their
>> packages? You would store only the debian/ for each project in the
>> monorepo, not the entire upstream source code. Compare:
>>
>>
>> https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/tree/master/src?ref_type=heads
>>
>> Documentation here:
>>
>> https://rust-team.pages.debian.net/book/packaging-tools.html
I'd go in the other direction and would want to understand first as to what are
the benefits you think this serves us if we go ahead with a monorepo?
> Several thoughts:
> - it makes a new hard path to follow for new contributors that just got a
> hold of Debian packaging
> - it puts a hard frontier between "your way" and "my way" with absolutely
> no possibility for an in-between
> - it builds a bag of sh*** in a single repository
>
> Tooling takes time, yes, but what Rust monorepo did is somewhat very bad
> for the Debian packaging ecosystem (for those reasons).
> I don't expect agreement about this, just expressing my frustration about
> the design.
I have similar opinions as well.
