Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 10:58PM +01, Joerg Jaspert wrote:

> On 16792 March 1977, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>> for the contents of packages in the archive the ftp team requires that
>> everything is in the preferred form of modification.
>
> Yes. Of course.
>
> But git or svn or even sccs and rcs is NOT, in any way, preferred for of
> modification. Only one way of storage and handling some metadata.

This is Debian's official position, but it's debateable.

There is the preferred form for modification for an individual *file*,
and that probably doesn't include version control.  But the preferred
form for modifying a *project* arguably does.

-- 
Sean Whitton