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



On 2020-08-30 at 10:02, Simon McVittie wrote:

> Rationale: it seems very confusing if a branch with "latest" in its
> name does not contain the newest available version :-)
> 
> (debian/master didn't have that problem because it's named by
> analogy to the "master" branch used in upstream git repositories,
> which doesn't really have a fixed meaning anyway.)

This would be the reason why I would have argued against choosing
'latest' for the name. If a replacement for 'master' is needed, the best
candidate I've encountered or come up with yet is generally 'primary'.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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