On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 02:52:33PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-08-30 at 14:46, Richard Laager wrote: > > On 8/30/20 12:02 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, at 4:01 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >>> diff --git a/web/deps/dep14.mdwn b/web/deps/dep14.mdwn > >>> index 0316fe1..beb96ea 100644 > >>> --- a/web/deps/dep14.mdwn > >>> +++ b/web/deps/dep14.mdwn > >>> +In the interest of homogeneity and of clarity, we recommend the use of > >>> +`debian/unstable` over `debian/sid` as it better conveys its special > >>> nature > >>> +as opposed to other branches named after codenames which are used for > >>> +stable releases. > >> > >> I think we should recommend debian/sid because for some years dgit > >> has been generating branches called dgit/sid. I think it would > >> smooth the integration between branches on salsa and branches on > >> dgit.debian.org if both always used codenames.
Yes, DEP-14 is about providing guidelines for this. And DEP-14 guides the URL for `debcheckout` > > Using debian/sid makes the branch name inconsistent with > > debian/changelog, which traditionally uses "unstable" not "sid". There no need to have consistency between a git branch name and debian/changelog saying where to upload. > > It also makes debian/experimental an outlier that cannot be made > > consistent (because there is no character code name for experimental > > AFAIK). > > I thought the same at one point, but in fact, there is: it's called > rc-buggy. > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Codenames > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/rc-buggy/ > Learn from bikeshedding that it is just bikeshedding. Regards Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse