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Re: Q to nominees: Rough plan on Debian/Ubuntu collaboration?



On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 07:35:03AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> On 16.03.25 22:51, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > Ubuntu has almost-universal git access to all source packages now, a
> > contributor can for most part just `git ubuntu clone` a repository,
> > make some changes and then submit a merge request. Done.
> 
> Does this mean that Ubuntu's typical packages's git repository is an
> Upstream check-out with debian/ subdirectory on top, and debian/patches
> applied?
> 

No, git-ubuntu imports the unapplied tree, roughly similar to what
gbp import-dsc would do.


> How did you get there from here? would Debian be able to copy that approach?
> relevant to d-vote, would a DPL who promoted this idea run into any
> technical problems, besides the obvious social ones? :-/

The main technical issues is running an importer service and hosting
the imported repositories, space requirements, reliability, etc; but
also you don't get those technical issues by proposing it, but the
person running it :D
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