On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 07:43:37PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On March 4, 2023 5:25:35 PM UTC, Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 05:54:38PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> > >> This is a matter of perspective. The fact that dak doesn't store git > >> histories and send them out to mirrors is an implementation detail, to > >> me. salsa and dgit-repos are both just as significant Debian archives, > >> even if they're not what we refer to when we write "Debian archive". > > > >for the contents of packages in the archive the ftp team requires that > >everything is in the preferred form of modification. > > > >It is therefore surprising that you as member of the ftp team declare > >that there is no requirement at all that the packages themselves that > >get uploaded to the archive are in the preferred form of modification > >as long as the preferred form of modification is in salsa. >... > Putting something in a git repository doesn't make a particular file more or > less the preferred form of modification. It's the same form. IMO you are > conflating two separate concepts here. I don't find Sean's perspective at > all surprising.
In proper git workflows the metadata is in git only, and cannot be included in what is being exported for upload to the Debian archive. Example: https://salsa.debian.org/haskell-team/git-annex/-/blob/master/debian/patches/debian-changes > Scott K cu Adrian
