Simon McVittie writes ("Re: Include git commit id and git tree id in *.changes
files when uploading?"):
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2026 at 15:38:31 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >We do not impose any such sanctions.
>
> Who is "we" here? Do you speak on behalf of the dgit team, or the DFSG
> team, or project-wide consensus?
On behalf of the dgit team, I can say that it is our policy that this
is allowed.
As for Debian as a whole: I am not aware of anyone in authority ever
having tried to get people to launder files from git history, merely
because they didn't meet (or hadn't been audited against) our usual
DFSG requirements. I had this conversation with various people at the
start of the dgit project. The consensus seemed to be that that ship
had already sailed long ago, even in 2013, for Alioth (which is where
dgit-repos started out).
That will have to do, I'm afraid. You're not likely to get an
official statement for all same kind of reasons as bureaucrats (eg
corporate laywers) don't like to say "yes".
> I appreciate that the dgit team has said they are not going to delete my
> contributions for having non-Free history, but that doesn't help me if
> some other part of the project (for example the DFSG team) declares
> non-Free history to be a social contract violation; and because of the
> nature of git history, I have to try to satisfy the requirements of
> every plausible future set of rules, not just the current one.
In this unlikely eventuality, then we (the dgit team), and the Salsa
administrators, will be in the same boat as you. Which would be the
prohibition of the most common git practice[1] adopted by Debian
maintainers.
If you really want to wargame these possible doomsday scenarios, maybe
we should do it in private email.
Ian.
[1] I haven't checked, but I think even right now, basing Salsa
history on upstream history is the majority approach. I think hardly
anyone (perhaps no-one at all) is trying to DFSG audit the upstream
histories they push to Salsa.
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