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Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

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On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 07:31:11PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> 1- Mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser, meaning we do mandate using Git for
> packaging.

Good.  Especially if we can then drop quilt.
 
> 2- Mandating using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout for Git, as this
> seems to be the most popular layout, and that we need some kind of
> consistency.

Big fat enormous NO!  gbp is a workaround for the biggest evil in our
packaging: quilt.  Watching pro-git-only talks on the Debconf, I got the
impression that if we dropped the VCS-in-VCS approach, there'd be no need
for most of that complexity.

The vast majority of upstreams already use git, adding 1980's-style patches
on top of that is like pulling a non-broken car with a horse.

And, a flat tarball like .orig is no longer a preferred form for
modification.  Do you remember the brouchacha in 2011 when Red Hat released
their kernel sources that way?

I'd say we should drop .orig and _forbid_ gbp.

> 3- Mandating using Salsa as a Git repository.

Or perhaps we could have a service mirror official git repos for packages
hosted elsewhere?


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Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages,  using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on  Salsa Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2019-07-24 00:10 +0200
  Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages,  using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on  Salsa Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2019-07-24 00:30 +0200
  Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages,  using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on  Salsa Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2019-07-24 19:20 +0200
    Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2019-07-24 22:20 +0200
  Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages,  using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on  Salsa Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2019-07-24 19:30 +0200

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