Re: git workflows (was: Steam Deck: good news for Linux gaming, bad news for Debian :()
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 03:31:02PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> For example, there are those of us who think that the downsides of the
> combination of 3.0 (quilt) and patches stored unapplied in git are
> significant, and so we have made attempts to provide alternatives, such
> as git-debrebase. Contributing to Debian would be a lot less fun if we
> were asked to just set these reasons aside and use something which to us
> is clearly technically inferior.
You can appreciate that the decision you took, in your interest, has the
direct cost that Romain mentioned, right? Even if I agree with you about
the technical merits of your approach, and I do, the consequence is an
increasingly complex and non-uniform surface area for other
contributors.
The task would be mammoth, and the likelyhood of success not guaranteed,
but I think in these circumstances implementing a technical improvement
to a project-wide process would be the way to go. This pre-supposes that
there *was* a project-wide process. There I agree with other posters on
this thread: this is where to start.
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