On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 at 23:45, Phil Wyett <philip.wy...@kathenas.org> wrote:
> Please create a salsa repository for meson and allow for collaborative > development and improvement of the package. The problem here is that it is exactly what I do _not_ want. The Meson packaging has made a strict policy decision that _all_ functionali changes need to go upstream before (and if) they are to be considered for Debian packaging. The amount of distro patches should be exactly zero. Sadly it is currently not, but that is the goal. Debian devs have an unfortunate tendency to send bug fixes (which is good) as distro patches to me (which is not). Sometimes even after I have told them several times over to file their patches upstream. There should be only one place where patches go and that is in the upstream repo. Adding a Salsa repo would make it even more easy for people to do the wrong thing. That is more busywork for me, which is not in the best interest of anyone involved. The Debian packaging of Meson is intentionally `install deps, run setup.py`. Anything more complicated than that should go upstream and fixed properly once.
