Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 02:52:33PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-08-30 at 14:46, Richard Laager wrote:
> > On 8/30/20 12:02 PM, Sean Whitton wrote:
> >> 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.
Yes, DEP-14 is about providing guidelines for this.
And DEP-14 guides the URL for `debcheckout`
> > Using debian/sid makes the branch name inconsistent with
> > debian/changelog, which traditionally uses "unstable" not "sid".
There no need to have consistency between a git branch name
and debian/changelog saying where to upload.
> > 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/
>
Learn from bikeshedding that it is just bikeshedding.
Regards
Geert Stappers
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