Bug#1042876: RFS: git-credential-azure/0.2.1-1 [ITP] -- Git credential helper for Azure Repos (program)

[M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 21:04, Nilesh Patra <nilesh@mailbox.org> wrote:
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> On 11 August 2023 1:32:07 am IST, Nilesh Patra <nilesh@nileshpatra.info> wrote:
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> >On 4 August 2023 8:21:50 pm IST, M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>Dear mentors,
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> >>I am looking for a sponsor for my package "git-credential-azure":
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> >> * Package name     : git-credential-azure
> >>   Version          : 0.2.1-1
> >>   Upstream contact : M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
> >> * URL              : https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-azure
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> >The upstream readme says that this software is in alpha. Do you consider it ready to go to testing or is it better suited for experimental?

Thanks Nilesh for your reply. Ready for testing I'd say.

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> >I think it's the latter, but you probably know best.
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> And since git-credential-manager is a mature alternative, what advantage does credential-azure have over it?

Principally Linux arm64 support. I've updated the readme.

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> Why not package credential-manager itself? Why not get the enhancements merged into the alternative instead?

Git Credential Manager is prohibitively difficult to package because
it's developed in .NET
https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/discussions/2960

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> Thanks,
> Nilesh