Loren, Yes, I would say that is generally correct. If you have a package that is team maintained, it is best under the team namespace. If it is not team maintained, it is generally best under the debian namespace (which is the team of all Debian Developers). It makes it easier for others to pick up if something happens to you. However, there may be specific cases where you do want to keep it in your own namespace. I maintain one package where I am also the upstream developer. I keep the Debian packaging in my own namespace because I want to have a very high threshold for other people making changes to it. At this stage, if something were to happen to me, both the Debian package and the upstream project would need to be adopted by someone else, which would probably necessitate a renaming of the project. Down the road, I would like to get more people involved in both the upstream development and the Debian packaging. When that happens I will probably move the Salsa project to a team namespace. There is certainly nothing wrong with keeping your project under your own namespace, but if you would like to move it to the debian namespace, grant me full access to it (my Salsa username is soren) and I can then move it to the debian namespace and grant you full access to the project there. Soren On Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:34:14 PM MST Loren M. Lang wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 01:11:46AM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > In data venerdì 1 marzo 2024 05:12:51 CET, Soren Stoutner ha scritto: > > > Generally you should create the repository under the debian namespace > > > > You need to ask a DD to do that. Non DD don't have permissions for this. > > So is having all packages (at least those not maintained by a team) > under the debian/ namespace considered a best practice for all but the > most sensitive of packages? Should I actually have my own package > transfered to this namespace? > > I just have a small, CLI package that I maintain alone and, since I > don't have DD permissions, just assumed that I should put it under my > own namespace. Is it recommended to just keep it under the neutral > debian namespace just in case I am no longer able to keep it maintained > in the future? > > My current package is https://salsa.debian.org/penguin359/tiv > > -Loren -- Soren Stoutner soren@debian.org
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