On 9/16/19 6:53 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 9/12/19 7:49 PM, Ansgar wrote: > >> That would just lead to packages using these to no longer including the >> Vcs-* fields... There are some valid reasons to host packages on >> services such as GitLab or GitHub such as when they are hosted there as >> part of the upstream project and/or for better cooperation with >> upstream.
It's very much fine if you still host it on Salsa, and ask upstream to pull from your repository. Besides this, I found such cases pretty rare, and mostly, we get upstream doing wrong/bad packaging, having a non-consistent with the Debian archive debian/changelog (because they don't care our release cycle and such), etc. Even with a very cooperative upstream, I don't see how you would get a single and unique debian/changelog, when most also care about Ubuntu. Do you have such concret example where Debian can use the upstream repository without a single change? > Either that or packages are just being removed from Debian and provided > in an external repository. That's entirely a package maintainer's decision, and so it is another package maintainer's decision to take over the work. IMO, this is FUD. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
