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Re: Should we allow Janitor to commit directly to all DPT packages?

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Subject	Re: Should we allow Janitor to commit directly to all DPT packages?
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> I admit I'm hesitating a bit for different reasons.  While I agree that
> direct commits are better than MRs I found several DPT packages with
> very sensible changes in Git but no uploads following these.  For
> instance fixing VCS fields and Maintainer name should be followed by an
> according upload to make those changes visible to users and developers
> of the *packages* in Debian.
>
> In the Debian Med team for instance we do those automatic changes before
> uploading a package - say when upgrading to new upstream versions or
> fixing some bugs.  Than we run the Janitor scripts and other automatic
> changes which is all done in routine-update.  I personally find this
> workflow more convenient.  That way Debian Med team (as well as pkg-r
> team) are blacklisted for Janitor to not have competing changes inside
> the package.

thanks for bringing the perspective of how things are done in the Med
team, but it feels none of the points you mentioned nor the specific
Med team workflow apply here, or are relevant to just let Janitor
commit directly to our packages.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro "morph" Tosi
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Thread

Should we allow Janitor to commit directly to all DPT packages? Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2022-02-17 18:50 +0100
  Re: Should we allow Janitor to commit directly to all DPT packages? Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2022-02-17 21:00 +0100
    Re: Should we allow Janitor to commit directly to all DPT packages? Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2022-02-17 22:00 +0100
      Re: Should we allow Janitor to commit directly to all DPT packages? Nilesh Patra <nilesh@riseup.net> - 2022-02-17 22:10 +0100
        Re: Should we allow Janitor to commit directly to all DPT packages? Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2022-02-19 14:30 +0100
  Re: Should we allow Janitor to commit directly to all DPT packages? Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2022-03-29 23:50 +0200
    Re: Should we allow Janitor to commit directly to all DPT packages? stefanor@debian.org - 2022-05-24 12:40 +0200
      Re: Should we allow Janitor to commit directly to all DPT packages? Jelmer Vernooĳ <jelmer@debian.org> - 2022-05-24 12:50 +0200

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