Hello,
Ian Jackson [07/Jan 6:01pm GMT] wrote:
> 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).I think we should be clear that this wasn't a decision that the tag2upload Delegates took. It was taken by the FTP team, when dgit-repos was first started. We explicitly got them to okay storing potentially non-free stuff in git histories there. -- Sean Whitton
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