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Re: DEP-14 migration questions



On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 12:15:25PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There was consensus during the DebConf BOF that we should migrate to
> DEP-14. I plan to work on that.

Thanks!

> There's a few questions that we need to address:
> 
> 
> 1/ name of the development branch (and default branch to be displayed on salsa)
> 
> We could either use debian/latest or debian/unstable. I propose that we
> use debian/latest, since for most packages, we don't maintain
> concurrently versions in experimental and unstable.

I don't care much. debian/latest seems good enough.

> 2/ content of gbp.conf
> 
> We need to write a gbp.conf file for each package, with:
> [DEFAULT]
> debian-branch = debian/latest
> upstream-branch = upstream/latest
> pristine-tar = true
> 
> Are there other options that we would like to see applied to all
> packages?
> I'm pasting below the content of our gbp.conf files. I don't really
> see anything that should be included by default.

Please be aware of native packages. The ones I can think of at the
moment are gem2deb, ruby-defaults and ruby-standalone. There might be
others. ruby-defaults and ruby-standalone doen't even have a gbp.conf,
gem2deb has a minimal one, just setting `debian-tag`.

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