On 6/19/25 6:33 PM, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
On 19.06.25 14:27, Pirate Praveen wrote:In general there are many conservatives in Debian who see Debian is perfect as is and any change is not required at all to any process or tools.So you think I am conservative? I am old enough to have seen lots of things come and go. I am glad that I did not follow each. At least I was able do my work instead of learning something new every other month.Of course priorities are different.
It appears to be as such. May be my observations skills are not good.There has to be a balance between adoption of new things and staying on what we know/have. In this particular case, this is an additional option, right? No one is forced to use / learn tag2upload. If this brings us in alignment with rest of the Free Software community, I think it is actually a less debian item to learn for new people.
You keep pushing your changes and ci continuously builds it. Just because we have been building traditionally on local machines, we cannot insist that should be the only way. Once you see the ci is passing with your latest commits, you can push a new tag. Very much like gitlab or github workflow where you can download release artifacts or source tarballs from tags/release pages.
I have also observed FTP team is particularly more conservative - wanting to stick to existing processes at any cost, for example the copyright review of binary new packages or using a remote SSH session to review new queue. We need not stick to a choice we made 20 years ago, just because we managed to work with it all the time.
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