On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 12:05:59PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > >> > All these things should make it much more easy for other people or > >> > automated tools to send merge requests or keep maintaining a > >> > package in > >> > case the original maintainer becomes MIA. > >> > >> > >> Mandating a specific git layout is a big jump from not requiring a > >> VCS at all. > > > > yes, its a big jump, but we are in 2024 and a modern workflow should be > > expected from a modern distribution. > > Attempts at top-down imposition of new methods on Debian strike me as > being unlikely to induce joy in anyone involved. > > After all, We're a self-selecting group of people who are prone to > repeatedly walking the road less travelled. > > Do we even have a consensus on which layout is "best"? Definitely no. Also all of them are bad in some way, which is expected when you wrap incompatible workflows. > For anyone with an opinion, I'd suggest that you should try to make sure > that DEP-14 reflects your opinion, and then work on getting people to > adopt the use of DEP-14 and/or get DEP-14 accepted. How do you envision this for people who are against storing upstream sources in the repo? Having two mutually exclusive options in DEP-14? -- WBR, wRAR
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