Quoting Ian Jackson (2024-06-17 14:13:00)
> Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload
> [and 1 more messages]"):
> > Your WTF seems to be from a false assumption that git is central to
> > Debian package maintenance. It isn't. It is popular, but not central,
> > nor standardized.
>
> git is central to most software maintenance in the world at large.
> Not all, by any means. But, overwhelmingly, most.
>
> In Debian it's unstandardised *unless* you use dgit push or tag2upload.
> Then the git representation *is* standardised, albeit complex.Has Debian standardized dgit for git source package representation? Or do you simply mean that dgit is standardized by the dgit developers, same as various other tools like git-buildpackage arguably has standardized their various structures as well? > > The topic of this GR is not streamlining Debian use of git, but allowing > > a simpler path from existing messy git to acceptance into Debian. > > I don't think this is true. tag2upload (like dgit) imposes a taxonomy > of git approaches, and defines precisely what each of these named > approaches means. Oh, if one of the proposers of the GR insists that the GR is indeed about streamlining Debian use of git, then I'll back off. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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