Hi Adrian,
Am Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 11:31:31PM +0300 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> > your package gkrellm-tz came up as a candidate for the Bug of the Day.
>
> does "Bug of the Day" even make sense during a freeze?
Well, we do not upload packages in testing but there are some packages
that are not in testing and it happened that we fixed RC bugs and we
can do also do removals. Moreover it gives more time to maintainers who
might potentially respond since for sure we follow freeze policy.
Besides all this the original idea was to demonstrate newcomers how to
fix bugs and this can be done in any case. Unfortunately regarding this
idea the project is a failure since newcomers are (at least not visibly)
joining.
> > I would like to work on this package to demonstrate how to fix bugs of
> > Debian packages which is done most easily by Salsa commits. Since I
> > know you are perfectly active in Debian I'm hesitating to migrate your
> > package to Salsa without your confirmation. Thus I'm kindly asking
> > hereby what you might think about moving gkrellm-tz either to Salvage
> > or Debian team space.
>
> I want to look at moving my packages to Salsa after the freeze.
Cool. Thanks a lot for confirming this.
> My red line is that I do not want to do tarball+quilt maintainance in
> git where I have to "git format-patch" in one git repository and then
> copy patches to debian/patches in another git repository.
I understand (and for sure accept) your preference which aligns with
lots of other developers who prefer the `gbp pq` workflow. I'm not
(yet) comfortable with this workflow but rather use quilt manually
adding the quilt patches later to Git. Since I'm used to it I have no
problem to work with it but I perfectly understand your point that this
is counter-intuitive. Thus I think its not a good idea if I might touch
any of your packages and I'm happy to have asked in advance.
> If tag2upload enables a fully git based workflow without .orig.tar
> (and without pristine-tar!) then that's something I will do.
This is perfectly at the horizont and I'm happy that finally some
tooling is sufficiently convincing due to visible advantages to make
developers considering to move to a git based workflow.
Since I'm not the best person to help here I will stop bothering you
from the Bug of the Day perspective. However, I will most probably take
the freedom to quote you (anonymized) if I'm talking about tag2upload /
git workflows since I consider your view as pretty interesting and a
good example for others.
Thanks a lot for your helpful response and greetings from Brest
Andreas.
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