Re: Changes coming with VCS for Debian packaging (was: Bug#877450: RFS: bash-completion/1:2.7-1 [ITA])
On 30 Dec 2017, Ben Finney wrote:
>"Gabriel F. T. Gomes" <gabriel@inconstante.eti.br> writes:
>
>> Not really. If I understood it correctly, anonscm.debian.org is
>> alioth, which was being decomissioned when I started to work on
>> this.
>
>The name ‘anonscm.debian.org’ was explicitly det up so that it could
>survive changes to a different host, by serving whatever is the current
>VCS service at the same domain.
>
>So, the statement “anonscm.debian.org is Alioth” is only incidentally
>true today; that name should continue to serve repositories when they
>move to Salsa, and whatever comes after Salsa.
OK. Thanks for the clarification.
>Sadly, the decommission of Alioth has apparently not taken that change
>into account. We are discussing it on the ‘debian-devel’ forum, but
>without a solution so far.
Since it's still under discussion, I'm thinking about filling the Vcs-*
fields for bash-completion to salsa.debian.org. Once a solution is
reached and anonscm.debian.org points to the new server, I can make new
changes to the Vcs-* fields.
I understand that this solution only works for me, because I only
maintain a couple of packages. Does it sound good to you?
>> I just noticed that alioth's replacement, salsa.debian.org, is up.
>> So maybe I should move this repository, now.
>
>Yes, that seems to be a good idea. The matter of what happens to
>‘anonscm.debian.org’ is a separate one, and should not stop you from
>migrating the VCS repository.
I have it set up on my personal workspace [1], however, as mentioned by
Sergio [2], I should ask a DD to move this repository to the "Debian"
group.
Actually, I have two question about this move:
1. Where do I ask for the help of a DD? (debian devel? mentors?)
2. Even though I read the discussions about salsa on debian-devel, I
still do not know how to name the repository. When browsing the
projects under the Debian group, I got the impression that the project
name is usually the same name as the package itself. So, in
bash-completion's case, I should probably ask for the "-debian" suffix
to be removed from the project name.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/gabrielftg-guest/bash-completion-debian/
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/877450#64
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