Russ Allbery writes ("Re: [RFC] Proposal for new source format"): > That said, Bastian's point about what we should do if we find that the Git > repository contains something that isn't distributable is valid and needs > to be dealt with regardless. I think one of our points of disagreement is > that I don't see how this is a concern specific to the archive; we already > have this problem because Salsa is an official project service, so we need > to solve this problem for arbitrary Git repositories already.
It is also a problem that the dgit git service could face. That is also an official project service. I have anticipated the potential need to deal with this issue. With the assistance of the dgit server admin, a maintainer can rewrite the history; and the server admin can blocklist the troublesome git objects (which will prevent them from ever being pushed again). The server admin can also of course simply delete a package entirely. So far this has not been necessary. I don't know how often a similar situation has arisen with alioth and now salsa. (I agree with everything else you wrote, too.) Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.