On 08/19/2014 07:40 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > As Debian developers, I think we generally shouldn't be dictating best > practices to upstreams. Let them do whatever is most comfortable to them and > let them concentrate on making good software!
I agree with that. But the same way, I don't think upstream should try to dictate the way we use their source. > Upstreams have a lot more > concerns then how well their branches fit into Debian's packaging machinery. > Sure, most upstreams are pretty Debian friendly, but they might have to worry > about how releases get made for vastly different OSes (i.e. not even Linux) so > Debian can be just a blip for them. I.e. nice if they can make our lives > easier but don't count on it. I don't count on it. :) > For better or worse, the tarball is the abstracted medium of exchange between > upstreams and downstreams, and it makes good sense to have that. > > (I'm not arguing against using an upstream git tag when it *does* all work > nice and smoothly, just saying you can't count on it, and should force our > workflows onto upstreams'.) Good! For the moment, it has worked nicely, apart from the fact that *some* upstream, like Jeremy Stanley, don't like it. I honestly feel sorry about that, especially with people like Jeremy and other OpenStack folks which are doing truly awesome work, and for which I have a lot of respect. And would like to let him understand the reasons that are pushing me to work this way. I also feel like it's mostly a non-issue, for which there's no reason to be that picky (just let go, Jeremy? :)). BTW, some upstream are very cooperative, and started to add PGP tags, and pay more attention to tags in general. Some just don't care. I've seen a big mix of opinions. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53f3982a.6030...@debian.org
