Bug#1127616: developers-reference: should document using git-debpush to upload

Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:54:05 +0000

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control: severity -1 wishlist
control: retitle -1 'dev-ref: please mention tag2upload as a new tool and provide a link to its documentation'
thanks

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 11:54:11PM +0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> (I didn't find the bug report about sponsored upload metadata, perhaps
> Holger can reference it)

I think I'm too annoyed having to waste too time already because of these
premature propaganda stunts that I wont activly search for the bug number. 
it's not like i'm the only one involved in that bug who has been active in
this one.

> There were already suggestions on debian-devel@ that maintainers
> should use dgit push for the initial -1 upload and git debpush for the
> -1+N uploads. That is obviously overly complex and shows that this is
> not ready to be recommended to newbies in the developers reference.

absolutly. this is so not ready for prime time, i'm (almost) surprised
the tag2upload delegates dont see the forest between all the trees.

i'm all for documenting all possible (and not possible) tag2upload workflows,
but i'm quite certain that currently dev-ref is not the right place for that.
in a year or two, or maybe even in a half, yes, maybe, probably also hopefully!
just not now as today has made very clear.

to be clear, https://wiki.debian.org/tag2upload is the current preferred URL
for documentation for tag2upload? if so, I think a link to that in dev-ref
would be appropriate and appreciated.

-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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