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Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload



On 17265 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote:

I'm interested what other ftp-masters prefer when considering a trade
off between space and additional integrity guarantees here. I have a
preference for the integrity side.
I think it's also a trade off in supported workflows. If we start telling people exactly how they have to use Git to work on Debian packages, we can simplify a lot of things, but wow do I ever not want to open that can of worms. Every time we open it on debian-devel, it's a giant mess. (Even
more than this thread!)

Honestly, while this thread has been long, it's mostly useful too. Lets
add some mess, just for the fun of it? :)

Well, it doesn't change what package maintainers do as the purpose of
tag2upload is that package maintainers don't have to think about source package representation? So changing those should not affect maintainers
much?
I wish it wouldn't change what package maintainers do, but the only way I think that works is to interpose a relatively complex build step between the maintainer representation and the archive, which is exactly what we're
currently stuck on.

Well, no. We *can* say "This new thingie *only* works this way. If you
want it, your package has to look like this, if not, do it whatever way
you prefer, but this new thing then is not for you". I don't think thats bad.

--
bye, Joerg


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