❦ 4 octobre 2019 16:57 +02, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>:
>>> That would just lead to packages using these to no longer including the
>>> Vcs-* fields... There are some valid reasons to host packages on
>>> services such as GitLab or GitHub such as when they are hosted there as
>>> part of the upstream project and/or for better cooperation with
>>> upstream.
>
> It's very much fine if you still host it on Salsa, and ask upstream to
> pull from your repository.
>
> Besides this, I found such cases pretty rare, and mostly, we get
> upstream doing wrong/bad packaging, having a non-consistent with the
> Debian archive debian/changelog (because they don't care our release
> cycle and such), etc. Even with a very cooperative upstream, I don't see
> how you would get a single and unique debian/changelog, when most also
> care about Ubuntu. Do you have such concret example where Debian can use
> the upstream repository without a single change?
Not sure if this is what you have in mind, but:
- https://github.com/Exa-Networks/exabgp/tree/debian/sid
- https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat/tree/debian
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