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Re: finally end single-person maintainership



> Could you explain that? I do similar things (just that not everything
> of it is published for $reasons), and I can't see how its increasing my
> workload as git and CIs are doing these things for me.
> 
> So I'm always curious on why workloads increase just by maintining a
> package on salsa.

It doesn't increase because of salsa. It increases because instead of being 
maintained on once place it goes in 2 places, where I still have to maintain 
both (by myself, mostly).

I normally run "make deb-pkg" which creates a .orig.tar.gz, signs it, then 
puts the debian/ directory somewhere suitable and builds it with dpkg-
buildpackage.

If the debian/ directory is on salsa, but the rest of the project is somewhere 
else, then this no longer works, I have to tag in 2 different places, I have 2 
different repositories to push to and so on.

And what's the advantage? When an nmu happens the person doing it normally 
doesn't bother to push to salsa anyway. At most I get a patch in the 
bugreport, or I have to diff the packages and import the diff.

So, extra complications for no actual advantage, from my experience.

-- 
Salvo Tomaselli

"Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di
senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno."
                -- Galileo Galilei

https://ltworf.codeberg.page/

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