DEP-14 discussion and our packaging workflow

[Andrey Rakhmatullin]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 09:53:32PM +0200, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:
> Dear Team,
> 
> there's an ongoing discussion in d-devel about formally adopting DEP-14 and I thought I would post a comment there about our debian-only packaging workflow because I feel it's being overlooked.
> 
> Not that we're doing anything against what's written in dep-14 (we would probably have to rename our default branches from "master" but I consider that a non-issue), but most if not all participants in the discussion seem to expect that the upstream source *will* be in the repo in some form.
> 
> So before chiming in I'm interesting in gathering some opinions from you, regular and occasional contributors.
> 
> How much do you value the debian-only workflow ? Would you be willing to switch to a workflow where we need to maintain commits / branches / tags representing upstream source for Qt and KDE packages ?

As an outsider's opinion (I don't work on core team packages but tried to
fix one once) I prefer git repos to be self-contained and don't like any
of the three workflows proposed on
https://qt-kde-team.pages.debian.net/gitguidelines.html

-- 
WBR, wRAR
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