On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 08:25:10PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi Bill and Wookey! > > In a recent long thread on debian-devel you had somewhat negative > sentiments towards the usefulness of Salsa.
I am not sure this characterize my position. I have no opposition to Salsa (even though it is missing features Alioth had I relied on), I am opposed to be forced to use it when it just increases bureaucracy. > I do see you doing good > technical work for Debian and recently a MR from Bill too, so I was > thinking that maybe you will change your mind when you read more > in-depth arguments. This is my attempt to have you think about Salsa > in a new light: > > On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 at 11:41, Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > > Having a repository on salsa or even "packaging team" does not prevent > > a lack of maintainer, so this is not relevant. > > Without a maintainer, no contribution will be merged in any case. > > Consider this Merge Request to fix debbugs builds immediately, and to > include Salsa-CI to keep the build from regressing again: > https://salsa.debian.org/debbugs-team/debbugs/-/merge_requests/19 debbugs is a Debian-native package. So of course it needs an upstream git repository. All my Debian-native packages are maintained on Salsa (and before Salsa on Alioth). The MR I did was for lintian which is also Debian-native. Also debbugs is a special case: The debbugs Debian package (as opposed to the debbugs software) have never been really maintained. I am actually one of the very few users of this package and I tried several times to get the maintainers to do a new upload but they were clearly not interested. Ideally debbugs should be made non-native so that some else could maintain the Debian package. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
