Re: Why Debian is dying (Was: Call for volunteers and GR draft: tag2upload key installation)

Matthias Urlichs <[email protected]> Sun, 6 Apr 2025 09:17:06 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
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On 05.04.25 23:37, Brian May wrote:
> An added complexity is that sometimes upstream will add non-DFSG
> compliant files to their source, and as such we have to repackage the
> upstream orig tar.gz file to remove these files.

Maybe it's (finally?) time to re-think most-if-not-all of that.

As in, in that case our sources are whatever the contents of the 
Debian-tagged git tree consist of, period end of discussion.

Then we either package that tree directly, or get with what the rest of 
the world does and don't package a tarball at all. A simple "git pull" 
from Salsa is perfectly cromulent after all.

I'd wish that one of the DPL candidates' platform included a *way* more 
aggressive step in that direction than Andreas ended up doing last year, 
but oh well.

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