Re: Git Packaging Round 2: SHOULD Not or MUSt NOT Github
On 9/15/19 1:10 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 12:01:24AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> It is a real life experience that I had to touch horribly maintained
>> packages by unknown contributors, with Vcs-Git:
>> https://github.com/<foo>/<bar>, missing commits not matching the
>> archive, and no response from the maintainer to the BTS (even for RC
>> bugs). The last occurrence of this was pyroute2, which I pushed into the
>> DPMT (and still no reply from that past maintainer). I hate seeing this,
>> and don't want this anymore, though it happens again, and again, and
>> again. So, the only way to get out of this is enforcement, like it or not..
>
> I resent the implication that Vcs-Git: pointing to github.com implies
> badly maintained packages.
>
> Badly maintained packages can also have a Vcs-Git: pointing to
> gitlab.com or salsa.d.o. Same for ignored bugs in the BTS, unresponsive
> maintainers, or incomplete git repositories. None of this has anything
> to do with the git hosting service in use.
What I meant was that both combined is very frustrating.
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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