On Sunday, 26 February 2023 20:06:26 CET Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 07:25:57PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > Apart from me not liking proprietary systems in general and M$ GitHub in > > particular, you also run the risk of things disappearing entirely without > > any notice and without any recourse. > > Perhaps tomorrow some company like Oracle decides to buy GitLab Inc., > and then Oracle GitLab stops the current Freemium business model > effective immediately. That is a concern afaic, but the critical difference for me is that (all) the *data* is on Debian infrastructure. > For anything in Debian, the package sources in Debian would not > disappear when a repository (or salsa) disappears. Question as I don't know: is that only the package change that gets uploaded to the Debian archive, or is there also a place where the (git) history of the changes leading up to a new upload gets stored? To use an analogy: I'd like that not only the 'destination' is preserved, but also the lead up to the destination.
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