Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)

2019-07-03 Thread Ben Finney
Ian Jackson writes: > I have said before that I think using "dgit push" (where possible) is > an ethical imperative. (I should clarify that I *don't* mean that > people who aren't using "dgit push" yet are bad people. Life is so > full of ethical imperatives that no real human could meet them

Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)

2019-07-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 03 Jul 2019 at 05:58pm +0100, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > At least for me, I was able to simply run 'dgit --gbp build-source && > dgit --gpm push' instead of 'sbuild && dput '. Mission > accomplished. Or `dgit --gbp push-source`! (just wanted to note this in case you hadn't come

Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)

2019-07-03 Thread Alf Gaida
On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 01:49:13PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > The main difficulty now with getting dgit push adopted is that > maintainers don't see the benefit *to themselves* and it is always > harder to get someone to see a benefit *to someone else*. Ok, that describe me. I see benefits in an

Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)

2019-07-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jul 03 2019, Andreas Tille wrote: >> > That's the case for me. I need to admit that I did not used dgit. The >> > reason is that I'm working in teams who all have Git repositories on >> > Salsa that more or less are following what was described in the Perl >> > team policy. I live under the

Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)

2019-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes ("Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)"): > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 01:49:13PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Anyway, I'm very happy to talk to you (or anyone) about your own > > situation in

Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)

2019-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ian, On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 01:49:13PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > ... > dgit push-source is slightly more convenient than the dput based > system and it catches slightly more errors and does slightly more > automatically. But, it is a fairly minor benefit *to the maintainer*. > > As I say,

Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)

2019-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes ("Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)"): > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:41:34AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > People like you are precisely the intended users of "dgit push --gbp". > > &

Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)

2019-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ian, On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:41:34AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sorry about this, but I really wanted to reply to this because I think > it is a common misconception. I hope people who are tired of this > subject can tell their program to delete messages with `dgit advocacy' > in the

dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)

2019-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Sorry about this, but I really wanted to reply to this because I think it is a common misconception. I hope people who are tired of this subject can tell their program to delete messages with `dgit advocacy' in the subject... Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Survey results: git packaging practices /