Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

[Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:03:18PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> The vast majority (all?) of git packaging repositories have the upstream
> sources.
> 
> I think this point is not really contentious.

Others have demonstrated that this is not the case. However, I believe the
majority of git packaging repositories do not break out the upstream source.  I
also believe that doing so is painful for new contributors: people seem to have
varied reasons for doing it and that's fine, but they should be aware of the
cost.

I see no problem in the DEP standardising on having upstream and ./debian in
the repository, those who don't want to follow it aren't mandated to, but
having a lot more consistency of vcs-packaging for the majority of packages
will make a huge difference for new contributors and I think that's something
we should encourage.


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Jonathan Dowland