DEP-14 discussion and our packaging workflow

[Vincent Pinon]

Le 20/08/2024 à 21:53, Aurélien COUDERC a écrit :
> 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 ?
>
> Do you see other items that may be worth throwing into the discussion 
> regarding dep-14 and Qt / KDE packaging ?
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Aurélien
>
Hi,

Thanks for asking :)

As I am new to packaging, I don't have a real opinion / legitimacy…
I only can say that learning a "standard" way to do makes it easy to 
follow general documentation, find answers etc.
Having a "niche" approach asks more effort for onboarding.

But as you present it, the offset here is rather minor and saves effort, 
it doesn't seem a big deal to explain that.

Sorry for stating the obvious ;)

Cheers,

Vincent