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

On 11/02/26 at 13:42 +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> * Sean Whitton <[email protected]> [2026-02-11 11:52]:
> > For example, I maintain or team half-maintain maybe 90 packages in
> > total, and none of them use pristine-tar.  So the only case where I
> > cannot use tag2upload is when I need to upload to NEW, which is not
> > often.  Therefore tag2upload is my default way to upload, because why
> > wouldn't it be, it's so smooth and easy.
> 
> My perception is rather different here:
> 
> Python Team:
> 
> "DPT requires a pristine-tar branch"
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-modules/blob/master/policy.rst
> 
> Science Team:
> 
> "It is recommended to use pristine-tar"
> 
> https://science-team.pages.debian.net/policy/
> 
> Multimedia Team:
> 
> "gbp clone --pristine-tar"
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging
> 
> Also most of my uploads are new upstream versions.

I added some statistics about fetishism^Hpristine-tar usage (SCNR) on
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/dep14stats.cgi

72.8% of packages with a working salsa project have a pristine-tar
branch.

Among salsa groups with more than 200 packages in testing, the following
have more than 80% of group-maintained packages that have a pristine-tar
branch:

  debian 3501 packages using pristine-tar (80.7% of the group's packages)
    with no team policy that advocates doing it AFAIK.
  perl-team 4079 (99.5%)
  python-team 2756 (97.7%)
  js-team 1674 (98.2%) 1704
  ruby-team 1174 (99.4%) 1181
  java-team 1040 (93.4%) 1113
  r-pkg-team 957 (99.9%) 958
  med-team 915 (99.8%) 917
  science-team 773 (92.6%) 835
  games-team 472 (82.2%) 574
  multimedia-team 518 (93.5%) 554
  fonts-team 345 (81.6%) 423
  ocaml-team 390 (99.0%) 394
  gnome-team 303 (98.7%) 307
  php-team 264 (96.7%) 273
  debian-astro-team 245 (95.7%) 256
  pkg-security-team 242 (96.4%) 251
  tryton-team 224 (99.6%) 225

The other groups (< 80%) are:
  homeassistant-team 368 (73.9%) 498
  emacsen-team 206 (59.4%) 347
  go-team 1467 (57.1%) 2570
  
  qt-kde-team 35 (5.4%) 654
  openstack-team 13 (2.6%) 501
  rust-team 4 (0.1%)
  haskell-team 5 (0.5%) 978

Lucas