Your message dated Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:35:06 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#1030382: encourage Vcs-Git over other Vcs-* headers
has caused the Debian Bug report #1030382,
regarding encourage Vcs-Git over other Vcs-* headers
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Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Policy currently describes Vcs-* headers as something optional, but stops to
endorse a particular Vcs.
At this point, it seems uncontroversial to encourage use of Vcs-Git
specifically here. Apart from technical arguments, it's the vcs that the
majority of packages in the archive uses - and thus will have the better
tooling, less of a learning curve for other contributors, etc.
There are very few holdouts of other vcses in the archive. I count 62
(ignoring those with an alioth URL):
* 26 on Svn
* 3 on Cvs
* 4 on Hg (2 are hg/hg-buildpackage)
* 39 on bzr (half of these are actually bzr and related packages, which I
maintain)
Cheers,
Jelmer
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Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@debian.org> writes:
> I've created a PR for devref -
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/developers-reference/-/merge_requests/41
> Are you saying that it doesn't belong in policy because it'd be a
> recommendation rather than a must/should (at this point?), or because
> it's more about the workflow inside of Debian than package contents?
Policy only documents the contents of source and binary packages and a few
related topics like the archive structure and the various control files
that come along with packages. How packages are maintained is, so far at
least, mostly outside the scope of Policy, which includes making concrete
recommendations about version control systems, forges, workflows, etc.
Therefore, the Developers Reference is the right spot for this. Since
that has been merged, I'm going to close out this Policy bug.
--
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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