Hi, I was trying to update the ipywidgets package. It once had a quite normal upstream, but then things went wild, if not stellar : they went monorepo.
For those lucky ones who never crossed the principle, the idea is to have a single repository, and make dozens of different packages live within. Basically, different directories now are different packages, with different release schedules. At the moment, https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets has 936 tags. There are several issues at hand : - uscan doesn't work correctly anymore, as the multiplication of tags makes them disappear in the list quite fast ; - and what does one want to watch exactly anyway? - even if uscan could keep up, how does one get the source? It should basically be a checkout of a different commit for each different directory! - how does one even put a version number of this for a Debian package? (I guess something like "Provides: foo (= 3.14), bar (= 2.72)" can help a little, but what about the main package?) So basically my question is the one in the mail subject : how does one package a multirepo project? Cheers, JP PS: and to package the next ipywidgets, I started to work on lumino ( https://github.com/jupyterlab/lumino) with the same problem. In my experiments I numbered the main package 0~20200824+git93880412-1... which is not ideal.
