Adopting similar packages in extra

2025-06-09 Thread Quentin MICHAUD

Re: Adopting similar packages in extra

2025-06-09 Thread kpcyrd
On 6/9/25 10:55 PM, Quentin Michaud wrote: The (more generic) questions are the following: under which criteria do we want to accept multiple "similar" packages in official repos or replace one by another? Do we want to fix (or already have) rules or guidelines for these situations or do we wan

Re: Adopting similar packages in extra

2025-06-09 Thread Levente Polyak
Jun 9, 2025 23:52:06 Massimiliano Torromeo : > That's at least if the project description is accurate. I am not aware if > there are more substantial code changes between the 2 repos. > > That being said I really don't like to maintain code, so if you want to adopt > it and rename it you have my b

Re: Adopting similar packages in extra

2025-06-09 Thread Massimiliano Torromeo
In data lunedì 9 giugno 2025 22:55:56 Ora legale dell’Europa centrale, Quentin Michaud ha scritto: > Hi all, Hi > I am interested in packaging vscodium [1] into extra but am worried that > it would be seen as a duplicate of the code [2] package. This situation > is unclear and not explicitly men

Re: Adopting similar packages in extra

2025-06-09 Thread Christian Rebischke
Hi Quentin,I think the common understanding was that we do not want to have any forks in our repositories.The existence of sudo-rs surprised me, because when I tried to push similar packages to our repositories in the past I got a huge backlash and 100 lines of IRC spam why pushing "just another fo

Adopting similar packages in extra

2025-06-09 Thread Quentin Michaud
Hi all, I am interested in packaging vscodium [1] into extra but am worried that it would be seen as a duplicate of the code [2] package. This situation is unclear and not explicitly mentioned in the wiki [3]. I asked the question on Matrix/IRC and this stirred a larger debate, so artafinde s