On 2020-08-30 at 14:46, Richard Laager wrote: > On 8/30/20 12:02 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> Hello Raphael, >> >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, at 4:01 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>> diff --git a/web/deps/dep14.mdwn b/web/deps/dep14.mdwn >>> index 0316fe1..beb96ea 100644 >>> --- a/web/deps/dep14.mdwn >>> +++ b/web/deps/dep14.mdwn >>> +In the interest of homogeneity and of clarity, we recommend the use of >>> +`debian/unstable` over `debian/sid` as it better conveys its special nature >>> +as opposed to other branches named after codenames which are used for >>> +stable releases. >> >> I think we should recommend debian/sid because for some years dgit >> has been generating branches called dgit/sid. I think it would >> smooth the integration between branches on salsa and branches on >> dgit.debian.org if both always used codenames. > > Using debian/sid makes the branch name inconsistent with > debian/changelog, which traditionally uses "unstable" not "sid". It > also makes debian/experimental an outlier that cannot be made > consistent (because there is no character code name for experimental > AFAIK). I thought the same at one point, but in fact, there is: it's called rc-buggy. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Codenames http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/rc-buggy/ -- 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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