Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Matthew Vernon writes ("Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such"):
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> > This seems like a little bit of an overreaction to somebody removing a
> > single redundant line from a control file, though.  Is moving it really
> > worth the added friction?
> 
> It's more a reaction to the "if you didn't want random commits onto
> master, you shouldn't have put it under debian/" policy. I don't, so I
> shouldn't have.

We're not talking about "random" commits, though, are we ?  We're
talking about a commit that a DD thought was very likely a good idea.
Were they wrong ?  It would be nice to have a proper reference.

It might be nice to have clearer guidance about exactly what level of
certainty a DD ought to have before making such a commit.

Ian.

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