Re: RFC: Revoke membership for janitor bot
On 1 October 2021 7:30:23 am IST, Daniel Leidert <dleidert@debian.org> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>most of you know that janitor/jenkins is committing to our repositories
>directly. However, I recently saw that it starts to commit changes targetted at
>buid-dependencies purely based on the fact that lintian might complain, and it
>also raises the standards version. IMHO these are tasks that only the
>maintainer should do. I have serious doubts about raising the debhelper version
>automatically because it changes debhelper's behavior (and can change package
>contents or maintainer script behavior) and it also raises the requirements
>which are then no longer been fulfilled by oldstable (has debhelper 12). I
>don't want the debhelper level to be raised automatically because I'm still
>trying to support buster-backports and I like having to do as few changes as
>possible to prepare backports. So it is a conscious decision to stay with
>debhelper 12 in some of my packages at the moment.
I think janitor checks if the deb contents changed using diffoscope. I think this is useful activity and helps us in not bothering to spend time on routine tasks.
>I suggest to remove the commit access for janitor. According to #debian-qa the
>tool should then create merge requests instead of committing changes directly.
>I took the liberty to downgrade the bot's role to "reporter" for the moment.
It just adds extra work for us. How many packages you are interested to keep in buster-backports ?
>Please add your opinion.
>
>Regards, Daniel
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