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



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/

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