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

Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:24:56 +0000

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 11:52:14AM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Even I, one of the designers, was taken aback by how much faster and
> easier it is to use, the first time I did an actual live 'git debpush'
> to the Archive :)

I believe you that, but what I think you don't get is that due 
https://wiki.debian.org/tag2upload#Not%20supported I still need
to be able to do uploads the traditional way and believe it or
not, but my tooling for traditional uploads is already there that
I can do traditional uploads super fast and super easy.

This, and given I have other stuff to do and limited spoons to learn
new stuff, doesnt give me much incentive to try 'git debpush'.

Why should I bother learning a new thing which only works for some things
I need it, thus increases my mental load and increases the complexity of already
very complex stuff and only has little benefit to most of my workflows?

That said, I do see how tag2upload is cool. However at least IMNSHO it's
not cool enough yet.

-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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