Re: Questions about "Winding down my Debian involvement"
* Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> [2019-03-20 10:22]:
> 1. I followed the hint to rsync checked out the source package have
> read the 6k d/rules of it. In line with the request for modernisation
> I wonder whether the candidates see any chance to convince
> maintainers to stick to some standard like debhelper >= 9 as a
> recommended build tool.
I believe there's a continuum between on the one hand giving
maintainers absolute freedom to do things the way they want, and on
the other hand enforcing more policies to do things a certain way,
creating more uniformity.
While I'm not sure where the right balance is in this particular case,
I think that Debian would benefit from moving away from its
traditional "anyway goes" / Wild West roots and moving more towards
agreed upon standards.
At the very least, we should find out why people don't use standard
tooling like debhelper, improve these tools and nudge people towards
them.
> 2. I consider packaging in Git on salsa.debian.org a big move
> forward to some unified workflow for Debian packaging (thanks to
> Salsa admins by the way). Do you see any chance to convince
> maintainers to maintain their packages on salsa.d.o as a
> recommended development platform.
We should definitely recommend it. The question is whether we should
go further than that.
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Martin Michlmayr
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