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Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches

Raphael Hertzog wrote on 29/08/2020:


@@ -200,7 +204,7 @@ developers and the package maintainers are not the same set of persons.
When upstream is Debian (or one of its derivative), the upstream vendor 
  should not use the usual `<vendor>/` prefix (but all others vendors should
-do so). The main development branch can be named `master` instead of
+do so). The main development branch does not have to be named after
  the codename of the target distribution (although you are free to still
  use the codename if you wish so).
As the name of the development branch is not specified anymore, should dep14 ask for it to be the repository default branch? Otherwise there's no safe way to tell what the devel branch is for native packages. 

Proposal:

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The main development branch does not have to follow the naming conventions of non-native packages (although you are free to still do if you wish so), but it has to be the repository default branch. 
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I refer to the "naming conventions" instead of "codename of the target distribution" because "latest" in <vendor>/latest is not a target distribution but an arbitrary name. 

Paride
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