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Re: Please check open Merge Requests before your next upload



On Thu, 14 Aug 2025, Russ Allbery wrote:

Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> writes:

Sounds like what you really wanted to say *in good faith* is that it is
blatantly embarrassing that default settings at Salsa make a false
impression towards noecomers that Debian generally acceepts drive-by
patching similar to Github and Gitlab.

I'm not sure that Salsa is any different than GitHub here, honestly. These
expectations are pretty unrealistic for GitHub as well. It's very common
for people to do new releases of packages maintained on GitHub without
looking at the open PRs.

I think this is just a case of people assuming that everyone else does
free software maintenance in the same way that they learned how to do it,
which is very much not true.

Has anyone thought about adding something like "Your package has XX open Merge Requests on Salsa" to the "action needed" section on the Package Tracker? That's something I almost always look at before doing a new upload on a package.

Scott


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