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Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories



On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote:
>
>> I'd like to note that there are very good reasons for a debian-only,
>> overlay-style packaging repository too. This section should, in my
>> opinion, at least acknowledge that, and briefly mention it as an option.
>> I find it a bit sad that it was outright discouraged.
>
> Personally I wouldn't use anything other than debian-only repos, at
> least for those where I have a choice. I also actively avoid
> contributing to packages that don't use such repos.

+1

Most of my collab-maint repos still use svn largely because svn
encourages debian-only repos (and also because of inertia, I guess),
not because I don't want to use git.

Regards,
Vincent


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